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It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

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.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.