Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.

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

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

There is no model, there is only color.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.