"Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it."

"Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. . There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foo…"

"My art gives meaning to my life."

"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? Why was there a curse on my cradle? Why did I come into the world without a choice?"

"The strange light illuminated all those night-time meetings that took place in every imaginable sort of café; the lips mouthing defiant words, heedless of restraint or consequence, often overbearing a…"