To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.