Clergyman's

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

“Let's leave the studio and go watch what moves..”
— Albert Marquet

“When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being.”
— Albert Marquet

“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.”
— Albert Marquet

“I painted only at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.”
— Albert Marquet

“It has happened that I have begun a canvas in a brilliant tonality, going on to finish it in a grey notation.”
— Albert Marquet

“Painting, even if we call it bad, if it is what helps to keep someone alive, how can we condemn it?”
— Albert Marquet

“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

“I was certain that they would never bore me.”
— Albert Marquet

“..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got.”
— Albert Marquet

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

“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..”
— Albert Marquet