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.

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

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

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

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

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.

I want to see how life can triumph.