I allow no one to touch me.
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.