True art lies in a reality that is felt.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... 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.

One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

Jesus Christ, a Nazarene, lived in Nazareth.

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

If you look like your passport photo, in all probability you need the journey.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.