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

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

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

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

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.

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.

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.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.