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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

I broke every barrier I could to see things as they are.

Gujarat is the first state in the country where not even a single student is devoid of insurance cover.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.