Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.
Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
I will be sof brief, I have already finished.
There comes a moment in every person’s life when they realise they adore me.
Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.
I do not believe in my death.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes!
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.
There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won’t, and that’s a spouse who can’t cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant’s revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision...
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.
Everything that is contradictory creates life.