Anything can be painted without representation.

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.

Anything can be painted without representation.

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

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

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly