The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

To arrive is to be in prison.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

The truly original artist invents his own signs.

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.