Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

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.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

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.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.