I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

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.

Only thanks to Pop Art, my painting has become understandable.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.