Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Life is too short to remain unnoticed
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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.
I am not strange. I am just not normal.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.
The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.
To be interesting, one has to provoke.
So little of what could happen does happen.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
I do not take drugs. I am drugs.
If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.
There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.
Qui sait déguster ne boit plus jamais de vin, mais goûte des secrets
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.
Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.
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