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 think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

Among our articles of lazy hardware, I recommend the faucet that stops dripping when no one is listening to it.

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

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

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.

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