* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.
Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don’t know what to say about what I paint, really.
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
Boys, look like you're having fun, but don't have any. (To his band just before going on the air)
O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence— whether much that is glorious— whether all that is profound— does not spring from disease of thought— from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.