"The only thing I love more than money is Gala."

"If I die, I won't completely die."

"The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is …"

"I prefer to be a madman, with the madness of an artist, than a sane man, with the sanity of a philistine."

"It is not necessary for the public superego to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."