"No one in my family was an artist. They were teachers, professors, one grandfather had a pharmacy. I was the very first artist in the family, which made me like an alien to them. My parents tried to tell me, 'You cannot be an artist. Being an artist is for rich people. Only the rich can do art because they won't sell anything, but they also won't struggle financially.' Of course, I struggled for years and years. But they did begin to support me once I started to make my name as an artist and as I had my first big exhibition in Paris at Galerie Vitesse about thirty years ago, when I started to be in the newspapers and magazines. They started to see that they could be proud of me as an artist. I am glad it worked, too, because there was no Plan B."

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– Stephan Dufour