I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

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.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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.