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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.