When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.

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

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

I draw like other people bite their nails.