"The most terrible thing is to feel alone in a crowd."

"I sense the presence of death everywhere."

"The greatest enemy of art is the good."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

"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 eart…"