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.

Youth has no age.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

In art, there is neither past nor future. The art that is not in the present will never be.

How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.