If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

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

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

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

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.