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I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.

I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.