I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

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.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

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.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.