I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

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

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