For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

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

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.

If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to invest more rather than less and go as far in his effort to communicate his inner image as he can.

I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.