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Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can’t understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I’m after: that mood which is apart
Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Surrealism is embedded in the everyday, in the daily experience.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
Surrealism is born of a consciousness of the derisory condition allotted to the individual and his thought, and a refusal to accommodate oneself to it.
Surrealism… in its broader sense… represents a spiritual crisis that stems from the ideological developments of the nineteenth century, and has succeeded in producing a technique of writing and painting that conveys a materio-mystical vision of the universe.
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are… It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.
