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.

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

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

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

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."

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.