If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

The more technique there is, the less there is

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

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.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.