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

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

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 camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

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.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?