"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light."

"Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is."

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

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."

"I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do."

"The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery."

"I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."