When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

Why assume that to look is to see?

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.