“To be interesting, one has to provoke.”

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.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed.

Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

God is just another artist, like me.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

All of our lives we seem to be searching for something only to find it was there all along.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

Even when it feels like nothing is happening, something is happening. Everything happens when we are ready and the timing is right.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

If you’re searching for peace but don’t know where to start, remember you hold the key within. You will find it there.

When you fall in love with love itself, you fall in love with everything else.