What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

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

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

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.

When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.