Paul Delvaux

“I am a realist of the imaginary.”

“The nude for me is not a subject, but a language.”

“I have always been fascinated by the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal.”

“Surrealism is the magic of reality that I have tried to express in my paintings.”

“For me, the subject of a picture is a pretext to create a world of my own, with its own laws, its own logic.”

“The train is a mysterious entity. Its passage is a miracle of precision and violence.”

“I do not invent anything, I rediscover.”

“The skeleton is a subject of great plastic beauty.”

“What I want is to create a world that is not the world of every day, but which is nevertheless plausible.”

“I have always been attracted to the poetic universe of the Nocturnes of Chopin.”