I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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.
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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.
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.