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.

I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.

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