When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

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.

Worst decision is when you have decided but still it doesn’t satisfy you in hell lot of ways and you long to go back in time to fix it. It is so expensive to afford a wrong decision.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.

No. I'm simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

I won't coach this team next year if he is still here. He won't listen to anyone. I've had it with this kid.

Today, I bought a pastrami sandwich: $13.75. Walked back out in the street - genuine Rolex watch: six bucks.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.