“It is either easy or impossible.”

Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this through vanity. It’s just that the rest are so bad.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

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.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

There is joy in self-forgetfulness.

The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world’s failures.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I’m stronger.