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.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

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

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.