Surrealism Quotes
Jyrki Vainonen
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
2234Arthur Holitscher
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
1277 Pierre Janet
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.
1733 André Breton
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
4346 René Daumal
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
1864 André Breton
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
2071 Saşa Pană
Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare?
2503 John Bennett
[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.
2067 Robert Desnos
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?
3253 Michael Richardson
We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.
4824 Saşa Pană
Ai pus nitroglicerină sub perna lui dumnezeu ...
3277 ALAgrApHY
Just like an apple tree apples and the earth peoples, Alan Watts alans prickly-goos and gooey-prickles.
2591 Souhayl Guesmi
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4945 Dave McKean
Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.
1563 Jason Daniel Chaplin
Fighting for freedom” is a myth. There’s only freedom in uniting. You’re not really free with an, “Us vs Them” mentality; because you are constantly defending yourself. And in fighting, there’s no time for freedom.
4617 André Breton
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
3708 Michael Richardson
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.
2522 Michael Richardson
The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.
4510 Michael Richardson
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.
1548 André Breton
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
2785 André Breton
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.
1005 André Breton
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
1556 Michael Richardson
Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.
1588 Salvador Dalí
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
4947 Marcel Duchamp
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
4896 Joan Miró
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
3892 Marcel Duchamp
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.
4580 Salvador Dalí
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
4039 Floriano Martins
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.
2044 Hans Carl Artmann
Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!
3504 Ryan Lilly
I had a dream about you painting the scene of a house fire. The clocks were melting and Salvador Dali was riding around in a clown car muttering something about irony.
4774 Sylvia Plath
I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play.
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