They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.