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

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.

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.

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

I really want to help write women back into history.

I think that being happy makes the biggest impact on your physical appearance.

Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.

The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking his word.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!