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

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.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.