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'.

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."

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

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

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

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.