It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

There's nothing so similar to one poodle dog as another poodle dog, and that goes for women, too.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.