The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

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.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in 'Holy Mountain.'