“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.

There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That’s the disease of our age.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.