The truly original artist invents his own signs.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

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.

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.

...for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.