When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

I have invented the Thermometer style.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.