"There is only one kind of painting: landscape. It is the most difficult. It has also, I believe, the most simple kind…"

"I have found a boat, small with two sails, that would make me happy. Unfortunately, I need one hundred francs.. ..and…"

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I…"

"There is often more psychic appeal in a so-called ugly woman than there is in a pretty one; and, in my ideal, I recon…"

"If I paint a girl in the sunlight, it's the sunlight I am painting, not the real girl; and even for that I should hav…"

"The Japanese see things that way. They don't paint sunlight, they don't cast shadows that perplex one and falsify the…"

"These Africans being primitive, uncomplex, uncultured, can express their thought by a direct appeal to the instinct. …"

"In the years that followed [i.e. 1905 onwards], Derain made a great series of compositions with life-size figures. So…"

"Neither Derain, nor myself, were what was conveniently called in this period the bohemians, the bad men: we were simp…"

"I desire, if by any possibility I should become a priest, to be a missionary, and if I am a missionary to be a martyr."