Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.