To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

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

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

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.