If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

I don't paint, I hit.

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars.