The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

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.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.