I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

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

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

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.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

I was walking along a road one evening – on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down – the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming – it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.