To Be Interesting, One Has To Provoke.

Who Knows How To Taste Wine Never Drinks Wine Again, But Tastes Secrets Instead

Let The Labyrinth Of Wrinkles Be Furrowed In My Brow With The Red-hot Iron Of My Own Life, Let My Hair Whiten And My Step Become Vacillating, On Condition That I Can Save The Intelligence Of My Soul - Let My Unformed Childhood Soul, As It Ages, Assume The Rational And Esthetic Forms Of An Architecture, Let Me Learn Just Everything That Others Cannot Teach Me, What Only Life Would Be Capable Of Marking Deeply In My Skin!

If I'm Going To Be Anything More Than Average, If Anyone Is Going To Remember Me, Then I Need To Go Further, In Art, In Life, In Everything!

In Order To Acquire A Growing And Lasting Respect In Society, It Is A Good Thing, If You Possess Great Talent, To Give, Early In Your Youth, A Very Hard Kick To The Right Shin Of The Society That You Love. After That, Be A Snob.

I Am The First To Be Surprised And Often Terrified By The Images That I See Appear On My Canvas.