“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”

“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.”

“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”

“Art is about emotion”