"I create images from the depths of my soul."

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

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

"To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does …"

"The greatest pleasure in life is to create."