“Valéry says that the painter should paint not what he sees, but what will be seen.

In my case, I paint not what will be seen, but the opposite—each painting is the expression of an act of discontent. I paint what will not be seen—or rather what requires a certain guessing, an act of divination.

What is not to be seen is a form—an idea, or even a thought.

Each painting is the direct, intrepid, somewhat passionate, even uncouth manifestation of an idea. In that sense, each of my paintings rebels against the over-meticulousness of what is generally referred to as beautiful…”