I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

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

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.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

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.