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

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

The simplest things give me ideas.

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

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.

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."

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.