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

(Art is) the residue of vision.

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

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

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.