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

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

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

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?

My will exceeds my talents.