Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

It constantly remains a source of disappointment to me that my drawings are not yet what I want them to be. The difficulties are indeed numerous and great, and cannot be overcome at once. To make progress is a kind of miner’s work; it doesn’t advance as quickly as one would like, and as others also expect, but as one stands before such a task, the basic necessities are patience and faithfulness. In fact, I do not think much about the difficulties, because if one thought of them too much one would get stunned or disturbed.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.