Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits..

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters..

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that..

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters..

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service..

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without c….

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre..

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it..

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks..

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature..