I Am Ridiculously Old-fashioned.

Art Shows Us How To See Things That Are Constructive And Good, And To Be An Active Part Of That.

Art Is The Ideal Medium For Making Contact With The Transcendental, Or At Least For Getting Close To It.

It Is A Danger To Wait Around For An Idea To Occur To You. You Have To Find The Idea.

Only About One Per Cent Of My Paintings Show Family Members. Do They Help Me Deal With Problems? It's Likely That These Problems Can Only Be Depicted. But Photographs, Private Ones And Others, Keep Appearing That Fascinate Me So Much That I Want To Paint Them. And Sometimes The Real Meaning These Images Have For Me Only Becomes Apparent Later.

When I Look Back On The Townscapes Now, They Do Seem To Me To Recall Certain Images Of The Destruction Of Dresden During The War.