What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Art is an escape from reality.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.