The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

The more famous I get, the more I am tolerated, albeit with some head-shaking.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.