"Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?"

“Our first Salon des Independants, where I think we were the only two painters to express ourselves in pure colors, was in 1901.”

“Over the course of the war I came to understand a lot. The Communists are right.. .It's terrible that many people haven't understood anything and want to return everything back..”

“I do not know how to write or speak but only to paint and draw. Look at what I have done. Whether I have succeeded in explaining myself or not, in any case, if you do not understand my work, through your fault or mine, I can do no more.”

“'Albert Marquet and the Fauve movement, 1898 -1908', full text of thesis by Norris Judd, 1976”

“Henri Matisse and I were already working, before the 1900 Exhibition, as far back as 1898, in what was later to be called the Fauve style.”

“It is in working that you will find yourself..”