Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.