If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.

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.

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? “I am Pure Soul”, it is that Self.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

So this is love:the Sculptor’s chisel.And stone, which in its whole lifedoes not utter a single word, suddenly sings.

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt.

The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.

It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again.

I'm humble enough to wait and just chill. I'm having fun just working with these good people, man.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

Itʹs not just the dress or the hair. Itʹs you. Youʹre beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.ʺ