The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

If you boss you think you can your instructor around, you won't learn.

A being is free only when it can determine and limit its activity.

Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.