“The materials, the colors, were like friendship and love, both wanting to fulfill themselves in the most beautiful form.”

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”

“The medium is as unimportant as I myself. Essential is only the forming... I take any material whatsoever if the picture demands it. When I adjust materials of different kinds to one another, I have taken a step in advance of mere oil painting, for in addition to playing off color against color, line against line, form against form etc., I play off material against material, wood against sack clothes.”

“If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?”

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness”

“As for the value of color I am close to the philosophy of Fauvists: Matisse, Raoul Dufy, and Vlaminck. In other words, color for me is the most important constituent of painting. The composition and form extract themselves from the depth of color. My colors are the spirit of my paintings. For example, when the space is sad it is my pallet of colors that convey this sadness first.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.”

“I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.”