I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

He aimed at the lawyer's heart but missed it. It was a mistrial.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

The words that matter always stay.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.

It isn't the mountains that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.