I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.

What we value determines what we do.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

The Lord help me to press after God forever

Today, Germany is on the borders of Europe everywhere.

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.

Lie down on the ground and feel the planet's heart beating.