Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.