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

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

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.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

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

I build a kind of wall between myself and t he model so that I can paint in peace behind it. Otherwise, she might say something that confuses and distracts me.