An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

God is just another artist, like me.