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.

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

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

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.