Let my enemies devour each other.
I am not strange, I am just not normal.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
I don’t do drugs – I am drugs.
Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
The problem with the youth of today is that one is no longer part of it.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.
When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.