“ Imagination is the power to form mental images of things not present to the senses or never before perceived in reality. The purpose of art is to communicate by touching the human center of emotion. All and everything is in perpetual motion. It is all vibration. Art is the bridge to the supernatural, a medium which makes contact with the invisible.”

“ I do not desire to re-present nature. I want to express emotions ignited in myself by the experiences that life awakens. I eschew ‘traditional structure’ and invite you to not ‘see’ my paintings as representing ‘things’ but as movement of light and color that proclaim the fullest passion of both joy and rage that chart the turbulent climate of my living.”

“ My paintings do not attempt to describe anything but create an atmosphere of joy and love without resorting to literal description. It matters not if I choose to use recognizable form or forms ‘abstracted’ from nature or purely free flowing gestures. It is possible that I have caught a ‘glimpse of the joy as it flies.”

“ One of the pleasures of art, as well as one of its truths, is its constant renewal, the process by which artists of succeeding generations are able to take traditional forms and present them in new manifestations.”

 “ Only when art is “living” can it give rise to an experience that answers an inner need for progress, a spontaneous need to progress on some plane or other – it can give rise to a vision, a perception on a higher plane, an experience in the consciousness which can make the art fresh and new so that it carries a new power for realization.”

 “ Kokoschka was entranced by space, light and motion. The painter creates space (not by traditional perspective) through color. Brush marks of color can only be applied either by placing the ‘mark’ next to another or by overlapping the color. You cannot place it under the previous color, as in music, when a trumpet ‘comes in’ the sound over-rides the existing sounds. And, so it goes. Stroke and counter-stroke creating space, light and motion. The composition starts to take on a life of its own and to become form.”

“ I must constantly summon the courage to resist the pressure of old habits of seeing as well as resist the seductive pressure of new fashions. Only our own vital experience truly belongs to us, which may encompass visions of the beyond.”

“ Looking at great art, you will always feel prayerful, something whole. Something integrates in you. You become centered, rooted.”

“ Both love and painting are painful because it creates the way for bliss. They are painful because they transform. The old has to be left for the new. The old is familiar, secure, safe – the new is absolutely unknown. You will be moving in an unchartered ocean.”

“Art has a transformative power to fuse and meld opposites into togetherness. Art becomes a song, a dance, a celebration. Art is freedom!”

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