Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.