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

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.

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

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.