To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

All critics should be assassinated.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Don’t put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce...

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty...

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.