To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.