It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.

...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.