"There are many reasons for becoming a painter. One author tells of some men who saw such beautiful things that they became mute. They decided to paint because only then could they express a deeper feeling which goes beyond words.

I must be silent in the face of beauty and truth. I must listen to the whisperings of God which call me to express myself in this way. My themes are religious - Acheron, New Jerusalem, etc. But they are a universal expression of faith and belief in a beauty greater than the common things of earth.

My works are geometric, three-dimensional paintings, but the passion of my art is not to achieve strict composition of structure, rather I want my paintings to shatter barriers between me and other people: I want these living souls to be submerged in the same universal ideas which have been revealed to me." — Shozo Nagano