It is like tearing up the veil of utilitarian definitions of the universe. I saw in this discovery a new freedom I wish to share with my contemporaries, with joy and in friendship. It leads, ultimately, to another way of living. To consider the world as the place where abstract currents interwine. That each painter would have to re-create for himself the main stages of painting, everyone knew that since Cezanne and Seurat. I wanted to go further and encompass Poussin, Cimabue and the caves.

This was how, in full absraction, in 1935, I dreamt and already wrote about going as far as Ingres and David - a dream realised only some twenty years later with several paintings currently exhibited (such as "Les Bourgeons" ( the buds) "Lapinerie aux fraises" (Rabbit with strawberries) and"La jeune fille et le mort" ( the young girl and the dead man). Perhaps this constant coming and going can be best explained by the fact that I never believed that truth could be entirely on one side; in everything, the contrary also is true.

Painting, like poetry, is a technique which allows us to live this apparent contradiction. We call the solution beauty. It cannot be defined but must be experienced.