"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…"

"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…"

"[K]nowing both [ Picasso and Derain], I feel personally (though I should like to express it as tentatively and hesita…"

"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."