I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.