I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

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.

It takes a long time to become young.

Why assume that to look is to see?

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.