"Basic themes in my art are my concern and preoccupation with human social and spiritual life. There is in the first place the human predicament to which I return time and again in my works - loneliness and isolation of human beings from each other, their inability to bridge and escape the imprisoning shell of their existence through their union with others and through their communion with nature. To me, the world embraces not human beings only but animals and plants as well, which figure prominently in my work."

    "I believe that the statements I make are not pessimistic but realistic, although it must be admitted that human beings tend to avoid anything which may remind us of suffering, old age and death. My work tends to redress this imbalance in our thinking and put our life in its proper perspective by depicting joy along with sorrow, despair along with hope, and life along with death."

    "My cosmological statements revolve around my belief in the cyclical nature of life and universe, life followed by death and rebirth. The belief in rebirth and resurrection infuses my art with hope, which is often represented by a fiery, red sun."

                           -  Marta M. Whistler