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

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

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

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

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

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.