“Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.”

“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”

“Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”

“Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!”

“La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real”