..the Matisse of long ago, so alert, such a battler, always giving as good as he got.
Notes from Wikiquote
In this quote Marquet looked back long afterwards to the late night conversations with Henri Matisse on the stairs of 19 Quai St. Michel
When I draw, 1 am as pre-occupied before a gas-jet as before a human being.
I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.
Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Marquet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.