I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.