Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.