"My ultimate aim as an artist is to achieve higher acuteness and existence through painting (visual composition) and music (aural composition)".

"My work is primarily concerned with image-making/painting as the art of composition whereby the creative process is akin to musical or literary composition, and the produced artwork is visual composition as opposed to aural or lexical composition. In this sense, I regard my artworks as visual compositions highly inspired by music as well as kindred to music".

"The (creation and) composition of line, form, colour, light & shade, space etc forms the basis of all my work".

Isabella Zuhal Parla