"My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious – to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow, and death stood by my side sinc…"

"I remained immobile trembling from anguish and I heard bounce through nature an immense infinite scream."

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

"In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head."

"My art is a form of self-portraiture."