Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and… — Paul Gauguin

At the age of ten, twenty, a hundred, very young, a little older, and very old, an artist is always an artist. Isn't he better at some times, some moments, than at others? Never impeccable, since he is a living, human being?

..color being enigmatic in itself.. ..then to be logical we cannot use it any other way than enigmatically..

I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.