(Art is) the residue of vision.

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

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

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

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

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.