I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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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.

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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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