There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

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

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.

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.

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.