«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»

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

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.

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

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

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water.

My thoughts seem thick, ketchup stuck in a bottle. Like trying to feel someone's face while wearing goosedown mittens.

Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.

Never brag, never bluster, never blush.

The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.