"My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?"

"The greatest pleasure in life is to create."

"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."

"I inherited two of mankind's most frightful enemies - the heritage of consumption and insanity."

"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep sense of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."