It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Without a relationship with God, it is not possible to have order in your life.

I felt the worry start to snatch at my breath when I finished talking.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.