I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.
It's the best fifth place I've ever had.
Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.
There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
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?
