“Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...”
“My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you ve never seen it.”
“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.”
“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I ve become a whore for my craft.”
“A good artist should laugh often!”
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques in manufacturing goods, the management of a home. That is what most of you will be doing anyway. We read these because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them, in their problems. And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves…”
“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”
“Love is artists foremost muse.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“It costs nothing to dream and everything not to”