Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

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.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

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.