The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.