I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

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

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.

Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.