And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

Curiosity is the main energy.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

An empty canvas is full.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.