Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.