For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

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

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.

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.

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

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.