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

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.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Enlightenment is not a rocket science, it is the pure awareness of something deep within you that is ageless, formless and undefinable.

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.

I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the morning and then going to sleep that night with something that did not exist.

I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.

We see Serbs as our spiritual brothers. And that is what is at the base of our relations today and in the future.