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

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

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

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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.

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.

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