I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

Alfred Schnittke was an important contemporary composer, and he lived in Germany, but no one here has heard of him. Everyone has heard of Mozart, and many believe that he can still be found in that little house in Salzburg, which is why people stand there in line. I think that our music and our art belong to our era. If the public doesn't show up, it must be stupid.

Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without me having to demonstrate it.

You dig in and you find something.