I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

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 beings.