Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

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.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

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.