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 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."

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

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.

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 simplest things give me ideas.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.