To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.