Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.
Pierre SoulagesA 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.
Pierre SoulagesI 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.
Pierre SoulagesI am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
Pierre Soulages