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

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb..

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 ourselv….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to….

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on….

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

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..

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

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

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion..

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….

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream..