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Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it ... — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Milan Kundera

Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise
the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way. and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer. — Milan Kundera

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Alejandro Jodorowsky

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. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park ... And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre 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. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. andre breton — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on ... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone and that for everyone it lasts. That the absolute gift of one being to another, which can exist only in reciprocity, be in the eyes of everyone the only natural and supernatural hanging bridge cast across life itself. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Paul Eluard

I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death, especially in Greece, where I sawed up the palette of an old man who stalked my lady friends right up to my camp bed. I messed up the hairdo of the greatest criminal in Chaldea. For all that I did not have to make use of my daughter native to the lower part of her father's vision, all the plains as far as the eye can see which eat hampers full of mother of pearl. — Paul Eluard

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I am the soul in limbo. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I will be like Nijinksi, who was taken last year to the Russian ballet, and could not comprehend what spectacle he was viewing. I will be alone, quite alone in myself, indifferent to all the world's ballets. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate? — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Words make love with one another. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre 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. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Even that great poverty which had been and remains mine let up for a few days. I was not, as it happens, opposed to this poverty: I accepted to pay the price for not being a slave to life, to settle for the right I had assumed once and for all to not express any ideas but my own. We were not many in doing this ... Poverty passed by in the distance, made lovelier and almost justified, a little like what has been called, in the case of a painter who was one of your first friends, the blue period. It seemed the almost inevitable consequence of my refusal to behave the way almost all the others did, whether on one side or another. This poverty, whether you had the time to dread it or not, imagine it was only the other side of the miraculous coin of your existence: the Night of the Sunflower would have been less radiant without it. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things 'are,' while others, which well might be, 'are not. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

A word and everything is saved.
A word and all is lost. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The act of love and the act of poetry
Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

With the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

... I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I love you on the surface of seas
Red like the egg when it is green
Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Frida Kahlo

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was. — Frida Kahlo

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Bill Brandt

Andre Breton once said that a portrait should not only be an image but an oracle one questions, and that the photographer's aim should be a profound likeness, which physically and morally predicts the subject's entire future. — Bill Brandt

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace it by others - this bears witness that one is about to be found unworthy, that one has already doubtless proved unworthy of innocence ... — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams ... Man ... is above all the plaything of his memory. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside! — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat - what to do in order to make what we are waiting for happen. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is
it can only be
the vigor of his protest against it. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The imaginary is that which tends to become real. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God! — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

A woman's hand, your hand in its starry paleness only to help you walk downstairs, refracts its beam into my own. Its slightest touch branches out inside me and in a moment will trace above us those delicate canopies where the inverted sky stirs its blue leaves with misty aspen or willow. As for me, to what do I actually owe this remission of a pain that so many others suffer because of less guilt than I feel today? Before I met you I'd known misfortune, despair. Before I met you, come on, those words mean nothing. You know very well that when I first laid eyes on you I recognized you without the slightest hesitation. And from what borders did you come, so fearfully protected against everyone, what initiation to which no one or almost no one was admitted has consecrated what you are. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself? — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The imaginary is what tends to become real. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Birds will be bored
If I'd forgotten something
Ring the bells of those school dismissals in the sea
What we shall call pensive borage
We start by giving the solution to the contest
To wit how many tears can be held in a woman's hand
1. as little as possible
2. in a medium-sized hand
While I crumple this star-lit paper
And while the everlasting flesh has once and for all taken
possession of the mountain summits
I live like a recluse in a little house in the Vaucluse
Heart king's order — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality. — Andre Breton

Breton Andre Quotes By Andre Breton

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. — Andre Breton