Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Life is filled with endless opportunities. You must search for the opportunities.Seize every opportunity and make it great.

There is life after abuse. This is mine.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for.

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.