It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.