"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."
"You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies."
"Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?"
"I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls."
