You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

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

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

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.