When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm not sure what will come out.

It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

Yes, my works... are enshrined in museums, but I don't care if the pieces fall apart in 20 years.

I’m a believer in luck and think the social conditions you’re born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I’ve been lucky.

A negative is never finished.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

Having priorities is essential. So is having them in the right order.

The only person I compete with is Satan. If that happens to be you, then could you please move out of the way? You’re standing in Christ’s spot.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

Just because no one has been fortunate enough to realize how wonderful you are, doesnt mean you shine any less.