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

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.

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

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

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.