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

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

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

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

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.

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have