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

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

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

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

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