Chaim Soutine

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

"Dear Mrs. Castaing, please come over after midday at 2 o'clock with a white dress without sleeves in order to pose. Because today I will not go to Mrs. Saxe. I am disgusted to do nothing at all."

"..My paintings are a heap of shit, but better than Modigliani, Marc Chagall, and Krémènge . Some day I will destroy my canvases, but they are too cowardly to do it."

"I never touched Cubism myself, you know, although I was attracted by it one time. When I was painting at Céret and at Cagnes . I yielded to its influence in spite of myself, and the results were not e…"

"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 demoralized, and that influences me. I have only seven canvases. I am sorry. I wanted to …"

"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 it"

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

"Once I saw the village butcher slice the neck of a bird and drain the blood out of it. I wanted to cry out, but his joyful expression caught the sound in my throat.. .This cry, I always feel it there.…"