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I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
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Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing unfortunately you can't help being.
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Be mad.
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No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
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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.
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If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
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