Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.