“The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.”

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

If I’m going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.

Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Everything that is contradictory creates life.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.

artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

And it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space.