Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

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.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.