What interests me is the unforeseeable.

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.

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.

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

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

It is better to be redeemed than to be rich.

The Scripture is like a sharp sword.

In Malta, the Wars of Religion reached their climax. If both sides believed that they saw Paradise in the bright sky above them, they had a close and very intimate knowledge of Hell.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.

I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children