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"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 am quite incapable of doing them , even the shadow. My trees look like spinach and my sea like heaven knows what.. .. the devil to paint, precisely because it is so beautiful."

"Lautrec was still satisfying his rather classical art-teacher Cormon in Paris. The unreal conventions of Cormon imposed and discouraged him, according to Henri Perruchot"

"I have always been a pencil."

"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 y…"

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

"I have tried to draw realistically and not ideally.. .It may be a defect, for I have no mercy on warts, and I like adorning them with wanton hairs, rounding them off and giving them a bright surface..…"

"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.."

"Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves.."

"I was certain that they would never bore me."

"When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being."

"I'm very much alone all day, I read a litle but, in the long run, it gives me a headache. I draw and paint as much as I can, indeed till my hand grows tired, and when night begins to fall I hope Jeann…"

"..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got."

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record."

"I could never have believed that such kindness existed: to receive my wretched drawings and then thank me into the bargain. And you need not be so scrupulous about my drawings. Just use those you like…"

"It has happened that I have begun a canvas in a brilliant tonality, going on to finish it in a grey notation."

"The Mirlitons in the Place Vendôme, opposite the column! What a crush! A lot of people, a lot of women, and a lot of nonsense! It's a crush made up of gloved hands manipulating tortoiseshell or gold l…"

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

"I painted only at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens."

"I can't do it, I can't do it. I simply can't help turning a deaf ear to it and banging my head against the wall - yes - and all for an art that escapes me and will never know all the trouble I have ta…"

"Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre at the National Gallery of Art"

"Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired."

"There are two young Englishmen in the next rooms to ours who are superb; their two sisters, looking like umbrellas, are here too, dressed in pink, with a little friend in blue with red hair. She is a …"

"When my pencil starts moving, it must be allowed its head or - bang! - nothing more happens."

"Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it! Eh? What? Isn't that so, my dear chap?"

"That state is a state of Slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him. This state can only exist when what a man likes to do …"