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

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

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

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

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

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.

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.