When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

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.

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

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

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

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

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