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

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

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.