I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

His [Diego Rivera's] supposed mythomania is in direct relation to his tremendous imagination. That is to say, he is as much of a liar as the poets or as the ch…

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious…

So I was at liberty, let us say, to write something about Coney Island in winter. If they liked it it would appear in print, my name would be signed to it, and…

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I was writing a lot of lyrics five or six years ago and the name Marilyn Manson, I thought really describes everything that I had to say, you know, male and fe…