Those Who Become Entangled In These False

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 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 Shadow Of My Consciousness, And The Light Wherein That Thing Would Become Apparent.

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 Decides That You Are Not Responsible - And So On To Infinity. You Are Not Obliged To Believe. There Is No Point Of Departure.

People Who Look For Symbolic Meaning Fail To Grasp The Inherent Poetry And Mystery Of The Images.

Too Often We Tend To Reduce What Is Strange To What Is Familiar. I Intend To Restore The Familiar To The Strange.