When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

There are more copies than originals among people.

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

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

I do things I don't know how to do in order to learn how to do them.