I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

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

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

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.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

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.