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

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

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 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.

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

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

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