“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”

It is either easy or impossible.

I am a contradictory and paradoxical man.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

If you understand your painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

So little of what could happen does happen.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

I’m going to live forever. Geniuses don’t die.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Rest is a productive activity.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.