In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

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.

(Art is) the residue of vision.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

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.

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).

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.