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 spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.

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

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

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

I want to assassinate painting.

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