When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

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

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

In art, practice always comes before theory.

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.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.