"I don't have any more hope. Nothing to expect with joy so why work - why bother when I will have to eventually die one day. The knowledge to have done something great should be its own recompose. Whic…"

"—I have kissed a corpse such was that kiss—"

"I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell."

"I paint the states of the soul."

"I inherited two of mankind's most frightful enemies - the heritage of consumption and insanity."