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

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

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

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

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

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.

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.