The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

(Art is) the residue of vision.