It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ways of doing it.

I have never painted a recent picture.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow