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 one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

God, who am I?

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Mister if you want more to join, ’ She said half-choked ‘you’ll have to put in the coin.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

If you want to take what I've learned and use it to your advantage, just listen and you won't have to go through it.