Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

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.

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.

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

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.