One knows that later Giacometti broke this domination the surrealist influence of Breton, and he became completely interested again in the figure, he became figurative – he did nothing in the end but portraits of his brother and so on, and all very... not realistic, but interested in life, in nature, and not so much in the dream or in the fantasy.

In 'Henry Moore in Spain' / 'Henry Moore interview', c. 1981, HMF Library; as quoted in Henry Moore writings and Conversations, ed. Alan Wilkinson, University of California Press, California 2002, p. 152