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.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

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.

The simplest things give me ideas.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.