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Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

I am the soul in limbo. — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Michael Richardson

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between oneself and the rest of creation. To abuse them was immediately to set oneself adrift from true being. Words need to be coaxed to reveal a little of their true nature, so as to close the breach that exists between the writer and the universe. The world is not something alien against which man is in conflict. Rather man and cosmos exist in reciprocal motion. We are not cast adrift in an alien or meaningless environment. The universe is intimate with us and, as Breton insisted, it is a cryptogram to be deciphered. — Michael Richardson

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

The double eyelid of the sun rises and falls on life. The birds' feet on the windowpane of the sky are what I used to call stars. The earth itself, whose motion seems so inexplicable as long as one remains beneath the vault, the earth that is webfooted with deserts is itself subject to the laws of migration — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

... It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life. — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely. — Andre Breton

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Andre Breton

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

Breton Surrealism 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 Surrealism 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 Surrealism Quotes By Dumitru Tepeneag

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests. — Dumitru Tepeneag

Breton Surrealism 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