I Never Retouch A Sketch: I Take

I Don't Paint Women, I Paint Pictures. . . What I Am After Above All Is Expression. If In A Portrait I Put Eyes, A Nose, A Mouth, There Isn't Much Use; On The Contrary It Paralyses The Imagination Of The Spectator, And Obliges Us To See The Person In A Certain Way.

What's So Astonishing About Not Understanding? There Are So Many Things In Art, Beginning With Art Itself, That One Doesn't Understand. A Painter Doesn't See Everything That He Has Put In His Painting.

Whoever Wishes To Devote Himself To Painting Should Begin By Cutting Out His Own Tongue

With Color One Obtains An Energy That Seems To Stem From Witchcraft.

An Artist Who Wants To Transpose A Composition Onto A Larger Canvas Must Conceive It Over Again In Order To Preserve Its Expression; He Must Alter Its Character And Not Just Fill In The Squares Into Which He Has Divided His Canvas.