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

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

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

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

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

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

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.