The act of painting is an act of prayer.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

War is not a means to resolve issues, it only reveals the failure of diplomacy.

Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of real education