I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

If you haven t had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart you have been cheated by nature

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

E Concrematio. Confirmatio--out ot the fire comes firmness, through stress we pass to strength.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.