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

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

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

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

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

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