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. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

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

We all are living in a world that will either kiss you or kill you..!!

Happiness is there when your dreams, hopes, and desires are compatible with your actions.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

I believe a champion wins in his mind first, then plays the game, not the other way around.

I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

There are those that hate and those that love, it all works out the same.

One of mankind's problems is we keep committing the same errors.