If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

I don't paint, I hit.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

I am obsessed with books.I am a book collector.

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.