I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.