I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.

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.

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

Mother, I want to see him fly!

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

People on the edge of love go with their heart and not their head.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.