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

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

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

Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.

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.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

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.