God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I imitate everyone except myself.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.