“Paint through the body; eliminate ideas. In painting, ideas come second. It simply does not work, in my view, to attempt to realize an idea in painting. My axiom is very simple : I believe in understanding only through the body. One forgets ideas…. Over and above this, an invariable criterion : make art not decoration. There must be transcendence… Art must be a metaphysical poetics. Otherwise it is of no interest whatever. ´´