A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Magic is seeing wonder in nature's every little thing, seeing how wonderful the fireflies are and how magical are the dragonflies.

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

The stars will live for me, if not anything else

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

There is no risk factor at all, the odds don't matter at all, because the odds of Law of Attraction are 100%.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

I don't have any intentions to return to England. I would go back if I could return as a free person. I don't want to return to prison.