I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

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'.

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.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

The simplest things give me ideas.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.