There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.