Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I paint when I cannot photograph.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.