I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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.

If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

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.

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

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.