There was a young man with a salary

I’m so affected, that even my lungs are affected.

I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.

All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.

I see everything in a grotesque way. When I go to the theatre, for example, things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them — the people on the stage, the footlights, the queer faces and garb of the audience in the boxes and …

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.