It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.