The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

A desperate soul needs a good and inspiring music

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.

If you respect the art and you have some talent about you, I'm on your team.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.