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.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

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