When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.