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

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

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.

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.

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.

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

A number of small decisions, each appearing insignificant in the moment and made in isolation of one another, can result in a negative outcome.

I think the world should be represented on television and for the longest its been limited. Ethnic stories specifically need variety in content period.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.