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.

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

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

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.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

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.