"To paint is to express a feeling."

"The effort to combine painting with sculpture has always interested me."

"The artist must look at all things as if he were seeing them for the first time."

"I should like people to know that they cannot approach color as if coming into a barn door ('entrer au moulin'); that one must go through a severe preparation to be worthy of it."

"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."