You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.