What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

I paint with my back to the world

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.