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

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

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

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'.

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

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

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.