Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.