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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.

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.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

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 is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

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

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 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.