The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

It took me a lifetime.

Basically the French are all peasants.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots 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.

I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.