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

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

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.