Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as a painter, but finish my work as a sculptor taking delight in caressing the forms.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.