"The only difference between a good artist and a bad artist is that a good artist steals his ideas from other artists, while a bad artist steals them from himself."

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

"I am not strange. I am just not normal."

"Paintings is only one of the means of my expression of my total genius, which exists when I write and when I live, when in some way or other I manifest my magic. A painting is such a minor thing compa…"

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