Basically the French are all peasants.

If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.