I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and – instead of giving up – you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling – be it an illusion or not – that something new has opened up.
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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.

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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.
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Drawing
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.
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Confusion Distance
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.

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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.
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Measurement Obsession Subject
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).

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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).
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Image Known Object Transformation
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

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That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
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Oneself
I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

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I’ve been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
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Drawing
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

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In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.

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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
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Form Measurement Obsession
Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

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Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.
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I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.

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I don’t know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can’t do what I want to do.
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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

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Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.
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Chair Copy
If we master a bit of drawing, everything else is possible.
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Drawing
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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Intensity Object Reproduction
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.

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All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.
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Replacement Rise
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
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I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

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