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.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

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

Joy came always after pain.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.