"Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls."

"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 my life, and my life is my art."

"Disease, insanity, and death were the black angels that guarded my cradle and accompanied me all my life."

"My art is truly a confession. A voluntary unveiling of my soul."