Action is the foundational key to all success.

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.

It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.