I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us - I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me - and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea - I still felt it, felt the pain where my heart was bleeding - because the threads could not be severed.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

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

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head