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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
