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.

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.

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

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

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.