Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

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.

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.

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.