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.

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.

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.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

America must always lead on the world stage.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

I love the idea of people being themselves in films.

Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense

I do a lot of family shows.

God has just always put me in the right place I guess.