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'I have always refused to specialise. I've always done many different kinds of things : photos, drawings, sculpture, films, books, ... In the end, it is hard to have many different talents, because each one wants to monopolise you ... all you can do is try to alternate between them, following your instincts...
I'm not afraid that I might wasting my energy... I want to be free.'

' My images were surreal in the sense that my vision brought out the fantastic dimension of reality. My only aim was to express reality, for there is nothing more surreal than reality itself. If reality fails to fill us with wonder, it is because we have fallen into the habit of seeing it as ordinary'

' Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbs and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.'

'I don't invent anything. I imagine everything... most of the time. I have drawn my images from the daily life around me. I think that its by capturing reality in the humblest, most sincere, most everyday way I can, that I can penetrate to the extraordinary'

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