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

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

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.

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

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.