“The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.”

“There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.”

“The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.”

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”

“My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.”

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”

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