Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.