The Form Is Always The Measure Of

That's The Terrible Thing: The More One Works On A Picture, The More Impossible It Becomes To Finish It.

If The Glass There In Front Of Me Astounds Me More Than All The Glasses I've Seen In Painting, And If I Even Think That The Greatest Architectural Wonder Of The World Couldn't Affect Me More Than This Glass, It's Really Not Worth While Going To The Indies To See Some Temple Or Other When I Have As Much And More Right In Front Of Me.

In Every Work Of Art The Subject Is Primordial, Whether The Artist Knows It Or Not. The Measure Of The Formal Qualities Is Only A Sign Of The Measure Of The Artist's Obsession With His Subject; The Form Is Always In Proportion To The Obsession.

I Paint And Sculpt To Get A Grip On Reality... To Protect Myself.

I've Been Fifty Thousand Times To The Louvre. I Have Copied Everything In Drawing, Trying To Understand.