For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

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.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.