“I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.”

The difference between a painting and sculpture is the difference between a shadow and the thing which casts it.

A painting is merely the image of a tree, a man, or any other object reflected in a fountain.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one’s discovery of an event – either seen, remembered or imagined. A ‘finished’ work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

There’s the artist’s intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn].

I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.