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

"Could only have been painted by a madman."

"The soul is an entity that exists in a state of eternal flux."

"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."

"The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose."