To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

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

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I have never painted a recent picture.