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.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

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.

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

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.