The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

There isn't a single person or landscape or subject which doesn't possess some interest, although it may not be immediately apparent. When a painter discovers this hidden treasure, other people are immediately struck by its beauty.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.