 From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. |
| The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men. |
| Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? |
| Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. |
| Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. |
| I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available. |
| It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it. |
| I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
