Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.