"The viewer should feel the pain, the joy, the love, the hate, the fear, the horror."

"I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic. Then people would see!"

"When I painted, I was a master. I felt that I dominated him, who dominated me."

"The camera cannot compete with the brush and palette, it is far too clumsy."

"I am a child of the night, a child of sorrow and longing."