"A great part of my conscious self is made up of immense curiosity which motivated me all my life to search in a never ending quest for the ever elusive ultimate knowledge. So far, my efforts nevertheless taught me that any degree of truth can only manifest itself in art. Furthermore, while knowledge can never be considered original, it is this degree of truth that gives art its originality.

While the artist-painter wants to know what things seem to be, the artist-philosopher wants to know what they are. It is this wish to know that compels me to continue painting and studying in order to better understand, and perhaps capture on canvas, the distinction between appearance and reality"