Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.