I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.