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.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

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

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.