I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

I love very much to draw animals.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.