"Art is never chaste. It should be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never exposed to them. One must be well prepared to approach it."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

"I would like to live like a poor man with a lot of money."