His paintings, with their emphasis on the disparity between the thinking and seeing processes, were regarded as among the purest elucidations of Surrealist philosophy. To equate my painting with symbolism, conscious or unconscious, is to ignore its true nature. . . . People are quite willing to use objects with outlooking for any symbolic intention in them, but when they look at paintings,they can't find any use for them. They want something to lean on, so they can be comfortable. They want something secure to hang on to, so they can save themselves from the void.
People look for symbolic meanings fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the image.
No doubt they sense this mystery, but they wish to get rid of it. They are afraid. But if one does not reject the mystery, one has quite a different response. The images must be seen such as they are. Moreover, my painting implies no supremacy of the invisible over the visible.