If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

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.

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

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

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.