When An Artist Or Student

My Models, My Human Figures, Are Never Like Extras In An Interior. They Are The Main Theme Of My Work. I Depend Absolutely On My Model.

When I Paint Green, It Doesn't Mean Grass; When I Paint Blue, It Doesn't Mean Sky.

The Sign Is Determined At The Moment I Use It And For The Object Of Which It Must Form A Part. For This Reason I Cannot Determine In Advance Signs Which Never Change, And Which Would Be Like Writing: That Would Paralyze The Freedom Of My Invention.

If People Knew What Matisse, Supposedly The Painter Of Happiness, Had Gone Through, The Anguish And Tragedy He Had To Overcome To Manage To Capture That Light Which Has Never Left Him, If People Knew All That, They Would Also Realize That This Happiness, This Light, This Dispassionate Wisdom Which Seems To Be Mine, Are Sometimes Well-deserved, Given The Severity Of My Trials.

Impressionism Is The Newspaper Of The Soul.