If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.