Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts . . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.