I work like a gardener..

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human being….

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere..

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out..

The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. Im overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, ti….

The more I work, the more I want to work..

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness..

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music..

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of prot….

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed..

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life..

I work like a labourer on a farm or in a vineyard. Things come to me slowly. My vocabulary of forms, for instance, has not been the discovery of a da….

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem..

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity..

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water..

The simplest things give me ideas..

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back..

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination..

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence..

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later..

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness..