"My art is an attempt to record the history of my soul."

"The disease of my soul is incurable."

"My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious – to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side sinc…"

"What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race."

"A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself."