The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

Art is the soul of a people.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.