» Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
» 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.
» Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
» The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
» The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
» I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
» The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
» Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.
» In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
» I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.