It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

Out of limitations, new forms emerge