disease

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.

Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future. If people want to interpret my work as warnings about too much overpopulation, disease and mechanization in the future, then that is up to them. I like to combine human beings, creatures and biomechanics. And I love to work with bones - they are elemental and function and, after all, are part of human beings. I have many bones in my home in Zurich, and I study them and use them as models. 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. There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.