My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.
When I eat a tomato I look at it the way anyone else would. But when I paint a tomato, then I see it differently.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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.