I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
The important thing is somehow to begin.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
All art is an abstraction to some degree.