Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

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.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

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

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

Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.