‘To draw a black line on a sheet of pure white paper. This act contains the fresh vitality of the human life force. Primeval energy is the power emitted by chaos.
Calligraphy provides a joy that differs to that of painting pictures. That is why I often use a writing brush. Characters that could be both writing and painting begin to dance on the paper.
Being pictographs they are sure to have meaning. However, they are not symbols in the conventional sense, with a determined form and accepted meaning. They are a direct coupling of content and shape, giving rise to inspiration through a momentaryimpulse.
The energy that fills the universe and all creation will find fundamental release and be condensed according to the vitality of the line as it is drawn.’