There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Only two of my personalities are schizophrenic, but one of them is paranoid and the other one is out to get him. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

One does not marry art. One ravishes it.