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.

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

I hate it when people pilfer my things.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.