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

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.

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

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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'.

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.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.