Andre Breton Quotes
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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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.
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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.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."
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What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their faces; and we gasp with pleasure. Our mouths are dry as the lost beaches, and our eyes turn aimlessly and without hope. Now all that remain are these cafés where we meet to drink these cool drinks, these diluted spirits, and the tables are stickier than the pavements where our shadows of the day before have fallen.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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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.
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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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.
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.
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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.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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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.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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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.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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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.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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