What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure..

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child..

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play..

There are always flowers for those who want to see them..

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything….

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has….

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer..

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things..

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain..

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to cont….

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor..

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul..

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an ….

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair..

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appea….

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, t….

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance..

Precision is not reality.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, o….

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur t….

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model..