The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

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.

Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.

We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

A man has a right to want to live.

I love people, and the hustle.

Only once have I taken on a role where I felt that I didn't quite understand her, but I said yes anyway. I don't think I'll ever do that again.

Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.