“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”

Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.

Do not be afraid of perfection – you will never attain it.

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Everything that is contradictory creates life.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache – it is better for the health.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

It’s better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

She is the perfume that scents the environment she blooms in.

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.