My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shado….

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 th….

No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better..

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint..

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

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple q….

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

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..

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better..

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

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything..

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows.

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

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

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images..

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 deci….

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream..

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness..

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

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible..