I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.