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.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.

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

The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

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

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.