My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Everything is dead while it lives.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no one think of that?

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

Generally ‘training’ went something akin to this:“So what you have to do is

Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper he would have asked for separate checks!

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

The sun in your eyes makes some of the lies worth believing.

Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen.

The world loves to be deceived.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.