"My art is an attempt to record the history of my soul."

"I do not paint what I see, but what I saw."

"By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life."

"The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas."

"I have created my art as a necessity, as an expression of my innermost being."