You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

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

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.