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.

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

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

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.

I want to assassinate painting.