Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.

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

I was driven on by.. A force which I see today as something alien to my normal life... so I have been no more than a medium as it were.

What I am after, above all, is expression.