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

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.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

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.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

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.

The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.