* 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.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness.
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.