"My approach to art ignores current affairs and social messages to emphasize purity of form, response to light and appeal to the mystical. Socrates has given me an artistic credo, 'I will try to speak of the beauty of shapes -and I do not mean the shapes of living figures or their imitation in painting, but I mean straight lines and curves and shapes made by them- they are not beautiful for any particular reason or purpose but are eternally and by their nature beautiful and give pleasure'."
