It Has Never Been My Object To

I Like Contradictions. We Have Never Attained The Infinite Variety And Contradictions That Exist In Nature. Tomorrow I Shall Contradict Myself. That Is The One Way I Have Of Asserting My Liberty, The Real Liberty One Does Not Find As A Member Of Society.

I Have Never Painted A Recent Picture.

All My Life I Have Painted Pictures So That Certain People Would Drop Dead When They Looked At Them, But I Have Not Succeeded Yet. The Worst Painting Cant Hurt You, But A Bad Driver Can Kill You, A Bad Judge Can Send You To The Chair, A Bad Politician Can Ruin An Entire Country, That Is Why Even A Bad Painting Is Sacred.

I Paint What Cannot Be Photographed, That Which Comes From The Imagination Or From Dreams, Or From An Unconscious Drive.

If The Affairs Of The World Were Put In The Hands Of The Screwball Artists, It Couldn’t Be In A Worse State Than It Is Now !