I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.