"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."

"And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?"

"My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art."

"When the sun goes down, it is as if the whole world is a giant mouth screaming."

"It is not the eye that sees, but the soul."