Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions as the brain's sentry, I communicate my innermost perceptions through the art, my worldview.