In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

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

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

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

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.