I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.