“Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?”

To recognize great talent, we must encourage dreamers.

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

A kiss from my mother made me a painter.

For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris.

To attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.

I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power.

If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.

You know, it’s no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.