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

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.