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

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.

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.

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.

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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