I was poking fun at myself most of all.

Humor is the only reason to live.

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

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

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.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

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