It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.