When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

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

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

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

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.