When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.
Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'