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

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

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

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

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have

I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.