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

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.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

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