My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.