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Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

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

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.