I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter of courage or liberating procedures ... of voyages into the unconscious, to bring pure and unadulterated found objects to light.

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.