Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.