Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

History is full of examples of people compromising their beliefs in order to keep themselves alive.

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.