'' Again, it’s the relationship of creation and destruction. The creative one puts things out there and the editor is the destroyer who takes things away. If the editor leads the way, you’re in trouble because it shuts off the process before it even starts. This happens with many artists, they start editing themselves before they begin to create. It took Brahms twenty-five years to compose his first symphony because he was comparing himself to Beethoven.''

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''Oh yes. But it depends. Whenever I feel good, I paint and whenever I paint, I feel good. I don’t paint to make a painting. When I paint I’m dancing. And as I’m playing with paint, I begin to fly. I’m conscious, but I’m not aware of what I’m doing.

That’s the problem with people who use external means of getting high. When you’re using internal means of being high, it’s empowering, and the next morning you can build up on it. If I drink and get drunk, in those moments it feels good but next morning it’s a problem because I’m down again. If I get high from my inner being, the next morning I build up on it and get even higher. Every painting I do is in a different zone and at a different level than the one before. Everything keeps building up so I’m transforming constantly.This is how you can judge a work of an artist. Does the work come from a divine power or someone who is under an external influence?''

''I freely allow my canvases to become muddy, messy and chaotic, for I know that the creative process is a mysterious power that is able to transform the negative into a positive state.''

''To create what inspires others, we need to fill our hearts with desire and enthusiasm. To do that, we have to break away from imitating others and have the courage to be true to our own vision.''

''When feeling down and gloomy, I start a painting in which I build a palace of joy above the clouds, or a blue sky above the storm. Thus I lift up my feeling out of mundane worries.''

''When I am following my heart, I complete the painting quickly without getting stock trying to figure out what to do next. When my thought takes over, the painting drags forever.''