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

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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 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.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

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.

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

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.