One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

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.

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

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.

Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.

Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

No one can bring to God what you can.

I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.

The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.

As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite happily change genres mid-song.

I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.