Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
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.
I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart