Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

Love is friendship set to music.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The painting has a life of its own

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.