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

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

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.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

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

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.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.