Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

Quote me as much as you like; as a matter of fact I don’t even mind if you misquote me !