The is a hidden message in this painting that goes:
"Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!" ("Can only have been painted by a madman!").
It is easy to miss it in the painting if you don't pay attention.
"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”"In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. ”