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

"I have always been aware of the relation between the color and the line, and that the two must be used with precision."

"The effort to combine painting with sculpture has always interested me."

"It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must be appropriately placed to enhance each other."

"There are two ways of looking at anything: one is to see it as it is, the other is to see it as it should be."