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

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

I don't develop; I am.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.