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.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

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

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

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

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.