Quotes from Andre Breton

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

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

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.

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

(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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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