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.

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

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

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

Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.

My paintings are not meant to be tasted.

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