In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

The mind paints before the brush.

I think sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

(In Fauve painting) it is as though the natural world were transposed into another key.

Picture making is a mixture of creation and craft. The artist goes to his work under the stimulus of some excitement which has been filtered through his own temperament. His temperament, of course, has been itself conditioned by the period in which he lives, the culture and taste with which he is surrounded, the purpose which his art will serve, and the technical means available for him to express himself.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything which surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting-that they must understand.