As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

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.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.