I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
I will either be famous or infamous.
Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.