You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

The simplest things give me ideas.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

I want to assassinate painting.