To be young, really young, takes a very long time.

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.