Destruction is also creation.

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

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Humor is the only reason to live.

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.