"Certainly a chair can be just as interesting as a human being. But first the chair must be perceived by a human being… You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it."

"The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side since the day I was born."

"Is it because she took my first kiss that she took the perfume of life from me?"

"I felt as if there were invisible threads connecting us – I felt the invisible strands of her hair still winding around me – and thus as she disappeared completely beyond the sea – I still felt it, fe…"

"I have created a new art that will shake the world."