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

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

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

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

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.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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.