It Is A Widely Accepted Notion Among

A Painting Is Not A Picture Of An Experience, But Is The Experience.

We Assert That The Subject Is Crucial And Only That Subject Matter Is Valid Which Is Tragic And Timeless.

I Will Say Without Reservations That From My Point Of View There Can Be No Abstractions. Any Shape Or Area That Has Not The Pulsating Concreteness Of Real Flesh And Bones, Its Vulnerability To Pleasure Or Pain Is Nothing At All. Any Picture That Does Not Provide The Environment In Which The Breath Of Life Can Be Drawn Does Not Interest Me.

I'm Interested Only In Expressing Basic Human Emotions. And The Fact That A Lot Of People Break Down And Cry When Confronted With My Pictures Shows That I Can Communicate These Basic Human Emotions.

A Picture Lives By Companionship, Expanding And Quickening In The Eyes Of The Sensitive Observer