For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.