It is either easy or impossible.
New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.
Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.
Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.
Forever will be you and me.
When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Beauty should be edible, or not at all.
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.