Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.

Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

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.