"Paintings is only one of the means of my expression of my total genius, which exists when I write and when I live, when in some way or other I manifest my magic. A painting is such a minor thing compa…"

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

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

"The only difference between me and a surrealist is that I am a surrealist."

"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 c…"