I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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.