Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

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

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

So little of what could happen does happen.