There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.

You can't have genius without patience.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.

Thank God I'm at that point in my career where I don't have to take stuff that I don't really want to do.

We will strengthen our country when we come together.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.