We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

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.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.