All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

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

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

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

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.

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