“Life is too short to remain unnoticed.”

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.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Sometimes I spit on my mother’s portrait for pleasure.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Since man’s highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

I don’t do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I always love being in the studio.

I always appreciate my name in lights.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.