What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.