From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Art is an escape from reality.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.