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

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

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

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

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!