"My models, you see, are not there to be admired, but to be interpreted."

"The artist is a collector of sensations."

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

"The importance of an artist is to be measured by the number of new signs he has introduced into the language of art."

"I have always been aware of the relation between the color and the line, and that the two must be used with precision."