“The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.”

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

We don’t grow older we grow riper.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I’ve just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it’s not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

Let your life be the creation of art.

I train about four or five times a week. I guess I am addicted to it. I also do a lot of martial arts. More than I have done in awhile. I like to go back to martial arts because it makes me feel good.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It’s a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.