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

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

The simplest things give me ideas.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

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.

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.

I want to assassinate painting.