What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Lord, protect me from what I want!

If it's good, it's mine. If it's bad, it's a fake.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.