What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

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.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair

Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.