I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.