Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

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.

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.

The stars do not shine but in the darkness

Lenny’s face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.