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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

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.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

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