We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.