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

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

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

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

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous infinite scream of nature.

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