“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”

Sex and art are the same thing.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Age only matters when one is aging.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

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.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

I’m an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there’s a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

All artists are crazy.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It’s a way to communicate oneself.