We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.