It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

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

My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.