Quotes About Surrealism

For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.

Absurdity, only you are pure.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? What duck? AH. SORRY.

I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

Gérard de Nerval

I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.

We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

Wine flowed from fountains, down into the mouths of those who lay in the pools beneath them. Narcotic fumes oozed from cubes of incense that smouldered in human skulls. I saw men and women of incredible beauty, like glaciers or naked flames. All were dancing, dancing.

Let's shake hands and be friends, but please, I beg you, stop farting like that, because I'm beginning to hallucinate and in my dreams I see Comrade Joseph Stalin doing the Charleston.

Ha una brutta faccia» sentenziò. «Indigestione» replicai. «Di cosa?» «Di realtà»

Si la vida no era un sueño era al menos una pantomima donde el cruel absurdo del relato fluía siempre entre bambalinas, y no había entre cielo y suelo venganza mayor ni más efectiva que al esculpir la belleza y el ingenio a golpe de palabras para encontrar el sentido en el sinsentido de las cosas.

My son got me into 'The Mighty Boosh.' I just love that surrealist humour.

It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or a Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

You were a painting by Matisse, but you took sleeping pills.

A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.

En contraposición al racionalismo arquitectónico, en 1939 los arquitectos Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan y Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, discípulos de Le Corbusier, conformaron el Grupo Austral, cuyo objetivo fue la incorporación de procedimientos surrealistas en la formación racionalista de los arquitectos y la dimensión psicológica dentro del funcionalismo del movimiento moderno.

Zaraz zrobimy kaw?. Wprawdzie nie mam kawy, fili?anek i pieni?dzy, ale od czego jest nadrealizm, metafizyka, poetyka snów.