Quotes About Surrealism

nos dimos cuenta casi al mismo tiempo que ciertas estructuras soñadas serían formas corrientes de locura a poco que continuaran en la vigilia.

Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas. Cortázar, Julio (2014-02-26). Rayuela (edición conmemorativa): 50 Edición conmemorativa (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Locations 3018-3019). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. Kindle Edition.

feel the same thing I feel standing in front of certain (very few) paintings or drawings by the Surrealists: that for a second I'm on the other side, that they have helped me cross over, that I'm you .

Una de las esperanzas dejó en el suelo su pez de flauta —pues las esperanzas, como el Rey del Mar, están siempre asistidas por peces de flauta—

Nunca se lo había explicado antes, no crea que por deslealtad, pero naturalmente uno no va a ponerse a explicarle a la gente que de cuando en cuando vomita un conejito. Como siempre me ha sucedido estando a solas, guardaba el hecho igual que se guardan tantas constancias de lo que acaece (o hace uno acaecer) en la privacía total.

con en la pelvis el signo de Antonin Artaud

Juntó las manos, separando apenas los pulgares: un perro empezó a abrir la boca en la pared y a mover las orejas.

Cuando los cronopios cantan sus canciones preferidas, se entusiasman de tal manera que con frecuencia se dejan atropellar por camiones y ciclistas, se caen por la ventana, y pierden lo que llevaban en los bolsillos y hasta la cuenta de los días. Cuando un cronopio canta

Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

over the dull cranium of Zola the chimneys are belching pure coke, while the Madonna of Sandwiches listens with cabbage ears to the bubbling of the gas tanks, those beautiful bloated toads which squat by the roadside.

Las cosas ocurren o no ocurren, y nada más. Nada se realiza mediante el sudor y los esfuerzos. Casi todo lo que llamamos vida es simplemente insomnio, una agonía porque hemos perdido las costumbre de quedarnos dormidos. No sabemos dejarnos llevar. Somos como un muñeco de una caja de sorpresas colocado sobre un resorte y cuanto más esfuerzos hacemos más difícil es volver a la caja.

'Northern Exposure.' I loved that show; I loved the way it was able to have episodes where somebody finds a woolly mammoth, he calls the museum in New York, they send a guy out, and the mammoth's gone because someone ate it. To me, that was everything I ever wanted to do. That show mixed emotion, humor and the surreal all at once.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

The real news has gotten more surreal and absurd, and my fake news, if you want to call it that, has gotten more plausible. And at some point, those two trend lines crossed.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where the artist had traditionally been seen as someone who invents a personal world, bringing into being something unique to his own 'genius', the surrealists conceived themselves as explorers and researchers rather than 'artist' in the traditional sense and it was discovery rather than invention that became crucial for them.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov