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.

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.

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

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

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