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

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.

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.

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.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.