Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

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.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.