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.

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.

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

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

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

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.