I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.
And in a picture I want to say something comforting, as music is comforting.
To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.