Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.
I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.
