My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

Humans are supposed to evaluate their lives.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

Some memories are presents that I'm unable to unwrap over and over.

When played together, love is music in life

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I never felt part of the Christian industry.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

When you breathe into fear it becomes adventure