My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

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.

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

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

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'.

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