I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
I was friends with Salvador Dalí until the day he died. Lucky me. I can't say why. I didn't live to be noticed, I lived to enjoy the excitement of doing right that day, and I knew I was doing it right when they would have me back. That was the thrill for me. I yearned to be validated because my mother was stern and I never did much right, that's how I perceived it.
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything.
I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience.
But I would love to work with David Lynch, if I could. He's my hero.
Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.
Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
I love Nicoletta Ceccoli , and I love Tim Burton movies. So those are like my biggest inspirations I think.
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.
I love surrealism.
Surrealism runs through the streets.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
