I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

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

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away.

Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.

Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

I've always been attracted to characters that were interesting to me, and different.

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.