Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

I do not believe in my death.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.