When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they were first modeled in clay? Any bone you look at, you always find fingerprints on it.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.