People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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.

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

Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

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!