A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.