My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

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.

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

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.