It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Creativity takes courage.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Exactitude is not truth.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.