“From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.”

“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”

“God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.”

“What I want to do is to teach a lesson to all these people … I want [to prove] that the Devil exists, that the Devil reigns supreme, that the power he enjoyed in the Middle Ages has not been taken from him, for today he is the absolute master of the world.”

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.- On Religion”

“I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.”