My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

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.

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.

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here.""Is there something wrong with that?""Absolutely.

Stop the world, I wanna get on!

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.

A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.