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.

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

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

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.

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

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.