If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

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.

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.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.

The better you get, the better you better get.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Feel exhilarated by this whole process. You want to be high, happy, in tune.

We're all doing what we love. It's how we express ourselves - operating in a space where you don't know if something is possible or not.

It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.