The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

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.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.