All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. BOTH SIDES of the artist's personality must play their part.
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.
I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.
All art is an abstraction to some degree.
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.