When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas. . . . To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.
I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.
My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.
If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
I'm superstitious. . . but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.