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

It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

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

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

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

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

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.