"I hear the scream of nature."

"My afflictions belong to me and my art - they have become one with me. Without illness and anxiety, I would have been a rudderless ship."

"What is art? It is the cry of humanity."

"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on eart…"

"All art, literature, and music must be born in the heart and soul of man."