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.

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'.

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.

The simplest things give me ideas.

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.

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

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.