“I spend a lot of my time looking at blue,
The colour of my room and my mood…”

“I spend a lot of time with my family. Because I think it's part of my life. I think the time...long or short is not the most important. I think the most important is the quality time...quality time with family.”

“I was kind of solitary. I'd spend a lot of time on my own, reading books. I didn't integrate very well.”

“I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.”

“It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue.”

“I put a lot of mannequins in my room in the past, and I still have mannequins in my room, because I used to be very lonely, painfully lonely. You have no idea. I used to walk the streets looking for people to talk to. I'm talking about the height of one's career…. I would walk up to them, strangers, and say, "will you be my friend?" They'd go, "my god, Michael Jackson!"”

“I withdrew further into the World of Warcraft, neglecting my homework and spending all of my free time playing it.”

“I stopped my song and almost heart,
For any eye is an evil eye
That looks in onto a mood apart.”

“I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.”

“I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom!... the immaterialisation of blue, the coloured space that can not be seen but which we impregnate ourselves with... A space of blue sensibility within the frame of the white walls of the gallery.”