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.

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.

There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership.

Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

When people clap for me I say, don't clap for me, clap for what God has done.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

He is not dead, he is just - away.

Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

When you say you don't get religion, you're just saying that you don't get organized religion.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.