It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

Love must be proven by facts and not by reasons.

Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.

Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

If I don't have red, I use blue.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.