When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

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

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

The rich man who gives steals twice over. First, he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Death is pitch-dark, but colours are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Some colours reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.

Without anxiety and illness, I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Colours live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?