No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

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.

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.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

At different moments you see with different eyes. You see differently in the morning than you do in the evening. In addition, how you see is also dependent on your emotional state. Because of this, a motif can be seen in many different ways, and this is what makes art interesting.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.