surrealism quotes

The skin of my character in ‚The Man Who Fell to Earth‘ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it’s all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

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.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.