The frame is the pimp of painting; it enhances it, but it must never shine at the painting's expense.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?

The true traveler never arrives.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.