“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

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.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

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.

Perhaps consciousness arises when the brain’s simulation of the world becomes so complex that it must include a model of itself.

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

I’m crazy, I’m nuts. Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently.

I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.

You’ve got to love what’s loveable and hate what’s hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

Logic is using the front part of the brain, that’s all.