“I feel myself tied to life. To the immensity and complexity of life. Each painting is an impulse towards life.”

“I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.”

“.. when I see people making quote 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough, that is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing, it has to be a trialogue. Whether that third thing - it must be, to reverberate and make trouble, you have to have trouble and contradictions, it has to become complex because life is complex, emotions are complex, - whether that third element is a still life of something, or an idea or a concept, in each case it has to be a trialogue and above all has to involve you.... The real thing that matters is how involved you are in that.”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.”

“There is within each of us a "life-instinct," which is forever working toward health, happiness, and all that makes for more life for the individual.”

“It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.”

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”

“Well, I think it [painting] is a life measuring stick. And I'm concerned with being myself, getting to know more and more what that is, what is possible, and what the real meaning of beauty and development is. I'm concerned with development and growth. But I am in my everyday life. I hate to feel deadly. But that does not mean that repetition or experiment isn't in the total picture of growth and development. And I think that pace and place differently at different times for each person.”

“Life — life — life! 'Tis the sole great thing
This side of death,
Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!”