I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.
Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let me tell you that this is more a sign of laziness than of genius.