I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.