“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.”

Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.

Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

God is present in everything.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.

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.

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.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Tears are quick to dry and certain pains never heal, sometimes what she says hides more than it reveals.

Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.