In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

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

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

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

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.

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.

(Art is) the residue of vision.