Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.