I’ll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I’d like to.

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it – pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers...

The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look...