The more I work, the more I want to work.

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

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

The more I work, the more I want to work.

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.

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.