The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

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

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

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

An original is a creation motivated by desire.