Quotes About Surrealism

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?" Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.

When we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another.

Mi locura es sagrada, no la toquen.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

I am the Don Quixote of unreality.

The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist.

Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.

Creo en el humanismo del ojo del culo.

Hrabia de G., typowy bohater Dalego, zwyk? mawia?:bale organizuje si? dla tych, których si? nie zaprasza. (...) Jajko na talerzu bez talerza na balu bez Dalego - to Dali.

I never took drugs, because I am drugs

What is surrealism?// A spontaneous method of irrational knowledge based on the critical and systematic objectivity of the associations and interpretations of delirious phenomena.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic

When I paint, the Sea Roars Others Splash about in the bath

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

A host of scorpions crawl out from under the wetnurse's dress and start swarming in her vagina which swells and splits, becomes transparent and shimmers like the sun

El cine tiene, sobre todo, la virtud de un veneno inofensivo y directo, una inyección subcutánea de morfina.

Designer Elsa Schiaparelli's enormously popular perfume, Shocking, launched in 1937, was one of countless products to derive inspiration from surrealism, revealing how rapidly a movement that was rooted in radical Marxist and Freudian principles could degenerate, so far as its founders were concerned, into an eye-catching, mind-blowing gimmick of immense use to advertisers, fashion photographers, and moviemakers. Breton would be horrified by this development; Dalí delighted.

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.