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Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

A painter is a choreographer of space.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

The impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.