“My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.”

I love you more than my own skin.

Painting completed my life.

To paint is the most terrific thing that there is, but to do it well is very difficult.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

I want to be inside your darkest everything.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I really don’t like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.

We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel – the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

I think bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.