Quotes

"To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been."

“Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.”

“What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.”

“I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all the obligatory sentiments.... I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical. I dread knowing precisely my own limitations.”