Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.