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.

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.

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.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

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

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.