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.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

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

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

I have never painted a recent picture.