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

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.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

It took me a lifetime.