Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.

Imagination is the voice of the daring.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.