The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

There is no solution, for there is no problem.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

It's the viewer that makes the work.