Automatism Surrealism Quotes & Sayings

The Lord always shows you all the difficulties when He is going to do anything through you. — Rees Howells

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation. — Andre Breton

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. — Helen Keller

Of course I'm getting ideas. You're hot and I'm not dead. But I know enough not to confuse lust with anything else."
She snorted and looked out her window. "Oh yes, Sean Kowalski. Your amazing kisses have made all rational thought fly out of my besotted brain. If only you could fill me with your magic penis, I know we'll fall madly in love and live happily ever after."
The truck jerked and she glanced over to find him glaring at her. "Don't ever say that again. — Shannon Stacey

Love not only stings when you lose it, when it's ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply. — Cat Porter

A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs.-Albert Einstein — Andrew Clements

Whether they hail from different cultures, countries or faiths, children are children. — Kimberly Quinn

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name. — George F. Kennan

Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful. — Martha Raye

Beloved, it is not office - it is earnestness; it is not position - it is grace which will enable us to glorify God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one. — Jeff Buckley

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them. — Michael Richardson

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action - Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. This — Rabindranath Tagore