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

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.

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.

If I see everything in gray, and in gray all the colors which I experience and which I would like to reproduce, then why should I use any other color?

What I am looking for is not happiness. I work solely because it is impossible for me to do anything else.

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

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.