An artist is an explorer.

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.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

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.

Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of my picture is expressive; the place occupied by my figures, the empty space around them, the proportions, everything has its share.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

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