I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

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

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue