The purpose of art is mystery.

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, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.

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.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.