If there is something to steal, I steal it.
I paint what I think, not what I see.
I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.
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.