“God is present in everything.”

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.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed.

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’

I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Don’t dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God’s all-sufficiency.

I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?