Without Hesitation, I Place Freud Among The

If You Refuse To Study Anatomy, The Arts Of Drawing And Perspective, The Mathematics Of Aesthetics, And The Science Of Color, Let Me Tell You That This Is More A Sign Of Laziness Than Of Genius.

To Be Interesting, One Has To Provoke.

Now Sexual Obsessions Are The Basis Of Artistic Creation. Accumulated Frustration Leads To What Freud Calls The Process Of Sublimation. Anything That Does Not Take Place Erotically Sublimates Itself In The Work Of Art

Eroticism, Hallucinogenic Drugs, Nuclear Science, Gaudi's Gothic Architecture, My Love Of Gold - There Is A Common Denominator In All Of It: God Is Present In Everything. The Same Magic Is At The Heart Of All Things, And All Roads Lead To The Same Revelation: We Are Children Of God, And The Entire Universe Tends Towards The Perfection Of Mankind.

At The Age Of Six I Wanted To Be A Cook. At Seven I Wanted To Be Napoleon. And My Ambition Has Been Growing Steadily Ever Since.