When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.