Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is confused except the mind.

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.

The purpose of art is mystery.

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.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

A good human being can still be molded from bad clay

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.