It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

I guess I've been making records since I was 16, and even when 50 people bought them, I thought that was amazing.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.