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.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

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.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws