I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.