I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

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

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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