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

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

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.

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

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

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.