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.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

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

In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

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

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

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

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

The form is always the measure of the obsession.

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.

If she's really psychic, " Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.