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

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

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

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

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.

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