"I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings."

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."

"Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish."

"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art."

"It's not easy to define poetry."

"Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."