The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

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.

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.

What I am after, above all, is expression.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.