At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.