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

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

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.

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

From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?