"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."

"When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky."

"An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."

"I have never left the straight path, but I have always tried to follow my own way."

"A chef doesn't have to always ask for approval and to ask [others] people to taste the plates that he prepares. If you must trouble yourself with the public, painting, its art, what one has to say, on…"