I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

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

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

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.

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.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.