It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

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.

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.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

I'm not a method actress.

I'm supposed to be writing a book, and I can hardly read.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.