For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a dist….

It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work toward….

As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they….

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions..

Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace ….

I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of….

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation..

Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form..

I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood..

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw..

Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human b….

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity..

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state..

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract..

I have written my name on the far side of the sky..

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue..

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art..

I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like….

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand….

My paintings are only the ashes of my art.

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My….