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

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

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.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

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.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

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