I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.