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 my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

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

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

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

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.