How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.