“People always think that in my paintings that I am trying to put across a feeling of suffering and the ferocity of life, but I don’t think of it at all in that way myself. You see the very fact of being born is a very ferocious thing, just existence itself as one goes from birth to death. It is not that I want to emphasize that side of thing but I suppose, if you are trying to work as near to your nervous system as you can, that is what automatically comes out. Life is filled with…suffering and despair”