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.

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.

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

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

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Art is the soul of a people.