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.

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

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination.

Humor is the only reason to live.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.