"Art comes from joy and pain, but mostly from pain."

"The strange light illuminated all those night-time meetings that took place in every imaginable sort of café; the lips mouthing defiant words, heedless of restraint or consequence, often overbearing a…"

"I was stretched to the limit—nature was screaming in my blood… After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again."

"I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart."

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye… it also includes the inner pictures of the soul."