I paint as if I were Rothschild.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
A puny body weakens the soul.
Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
I prefer the gloominess to the sun. I don't know why.
As a child, I copied Duerer drawings and Bruegel.
I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.
I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.
Why talk when you can paint?
I just have a lot off different influences.
The thing of playin' and singin' never bothered me.
