Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

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.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

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

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

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.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.