“Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?”

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”

“We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.”

“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”

“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”

“If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.”

“Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”