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.

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

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.