The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

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

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

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

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.