An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

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.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

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.

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.