The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

It is important to understand where to draw a line between progress and perfection.

Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.

Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Light may seem at times to be an impertinent intruder, but it is always beneficial in the end.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

You are the creator of your own destiny