One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.