Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

The purpose of art is mystery.

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.