I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

There isn't much to say about my childhood. I remember explosions of intense happiness, followed shortly afterwards by profound melancholy that always prompted remarks and comments from those around me on how remote my life was from my age. Therefore I rapidly lost all my respect for age. From then on, I always lived without any age, given that every year I used to repudiate it, choosing another one for the sole good reason that I liked it better.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.