I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

Photographic data... is still and essentially the safest poetic medium and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

I will be so brief, I have already finished.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence of God.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Democratic governments are not suited to the publication of the thunderous revelations I am in the habit of making. The unpublished parts will appear later... when Europe will have restored its traditional monarchies.

Happy is he who causes a scandal.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

There comes a moment in every person's life when they realise they adore me.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

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

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.

I am not strange. I am just not normal.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Painter, paint!

Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.