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.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I believe working with clay will be my primary expression. But life is unpredictable. I find that fact exciting.

[In New York, still charmed by Post-Impressionism and puzzled by Cubism, Duchamp and others took on the art establishment as a way of holding up a mirror to modern society.] Cher Tzara, ... Dada cannot live in New York. All New York is dada, and will not tolerate a rival.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.