Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
I am dumbfounded at how little philosophical and metaphysical importance the human mind has attached to the vital subject of excrement.
I don't take drugs, I am the drug.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning….
The Parthenon was not built as a ruin.
Then all explanation arises a posteriori; once the picture already exists as phenomenon.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
