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

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.