All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

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

The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

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

If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.