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.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

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

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so many ways, and this is what makes art so interesting.

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

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