"Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours."
- Dave McKean
"What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata, come closah, say high."
- Virginia Petrucci
"I am the soul in limbo."
- André Breton
"People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings."
- Salvador Dalí
"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste."
- Marcel Duchamp
"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. "
- Joan Miró
"Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws."
"One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity."
- Alfred Jarry
"[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings..."
- Janet Malcolm
"Everyday objects shriek aloud."
- René Magritte