The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Love more, fear less.

Great teachers are usually a little crazy.

There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

One can always reason with reason.

Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.

I don't have a favorite place to see art. I like to encounter it anywhere, museum, gallery, home, studio, street... I do prefer to see good art, when I see art, but it doesn't matter where I see it.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.