To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

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.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.

I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.