Everything that is contradictory creates life

I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

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

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.