"To gaze is to think."
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure that of being Salvador Dali."
"The only difference between myself and a madman, is that I am not mad."
"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."
"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."
"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."
"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always
the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."
"It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning."
"The only thing that the world will not have enough of is exaggeration."
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"I will be so brief I have already finished."