At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.