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 had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
Surrealism runs through the streets.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.