Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.