“We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.”

“Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.”

“Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.”

“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.”

“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”