I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.

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.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.