Still lifes used to be one of my favorites, but now I don't want to paint with style or still life - I just want to make my pictures, no genre, no drawer. Shift in the shaft.

I don't want to cling to the immobile, the rigid, the old - I want to hear the breathing of the wind and the rustling of the leaves - to bring vibration into my paintings.

To pay respect to chance - to meet it - to push it back - to challenge it to a pleasurable interplay, without compulsion, with composure, sometimes simply letting the oil paint run.

Meeting the game seriously and countering it lightly - I want to paint light-heartedness with great concern.

You have to light up the pictures - delicately restrained - but truly, you should touch and submit, you may penetrate your viewers, friends and owners - you should enter into an interlude with them, make them addicted to seeing them again - the relationship to the picture may become intimate - be intimate.

The sun should tickle the snow, warm the sand, make the flowers bloom - and inspire me to paint - I enjoy the pleasure of painting more than anything else.