Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

Everything that is contradictory creates life

Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

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

So little of what could happen does happen.

I do not take drugs. I am drug.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

To be interesting, one has to provoke.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.

Life is too short to remain unnoticed

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.