"I want to do figures, figures and more figures, it's stronger than me, this series of bipeds from the baby to Socrates and from the black-haired woman with white skin to the woman with yellow hair and…"

"At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life."

"I want to be able to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colours."

"When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars."

"I am not mad, I am just not sane."