I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

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

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.

There is no model, there is only color.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.