My position is the lack of a position, but, of course, you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk, you spoil the whole game.
Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.
Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.
Since Courbet, it's been believed that painting is addressed to the retina. That was everyone's error. The retinal shudder! Before, painting had other functions: it could be religious, philosophical, moral... our whole century is completely retinal, except for the Surrealists, who tried to go outside it somewhat.
I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
