I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.

Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

All things, and man as well, should be like nature, without measure.

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?

If it's a good audition, whether or not I think I'm going to get the part, I do always say yes to going.

You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.

My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.