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.

I love very much to draw animals.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

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