The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Deserve your dream.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.