I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

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

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

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

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

I don’t care about the word ‘art’ because it has been so discredited. So I want to get rid of it. There is an unnecessary adoration of ‘art’ today.

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.