I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

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.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.