Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

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

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born.

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.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.