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

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.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

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.

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