I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

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.

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

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

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