Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

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.

You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.