"Man is a part of nature, and his feelings are part of nature."

"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."

"—I have kissed a corpse such was that kiss—"

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

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."