"Dear Mrs. Castaing, please come over after midday at 2 o'clock with a white dress without sleeves in order to pose. B…"

"Ah, the giant that is Rembrandt; he's God, he's God!"

"There are some who believe that Soutine deforms his paintings just to deform. That is a grave error. He himself suffe…"

"Soutine painted rapidly. He nurtured his idea for several months and then, when ready, started the painting in fury. …"

"I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted by it one time. When I was painting at Céret and at…"

"It is the first time in my life that I have not been able to do anything. I am in a bad state of mind and I am demora…"

"Once I saw the village butcher [in his youth, in Russia] slice the neck of a bird and drain the blood out of it. I wa…"

"You don't like my painting, you only want to help me. If you had given me one franc for my picture I would have taken…"

"You have no right to interfere with my art. Your wife is not your property. I need her, in order to finish my picture…"

"..My paintings are a heap of shit, but better than Modigliani, Marc Chagall, and Krémènge [a Russian companion painte…"