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

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

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.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.