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I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

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.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.