The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

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.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.