One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.