Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Precision is not reality

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.

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

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.