At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

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.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

My wife is a very attractive woman, and she's always worried about her diet. But she doesn't pay attention to me, and I don't pay attention to her. She's a vegetarian, and it drives me crazy.

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

I've never seen myself as a manager. As a manager, you have to put all your time into the job, and that would be difficult for me.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.