Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

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?

I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.