The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

A good many people think as I do. If they like my work they are creative . . . or they are crazy.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

The moment you try working on what appears difficult to you, you will start noticing it’s loopholes that you can breakthrough.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

Don’t just think it, ink it.

A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.