Quotes About Surrealism

one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch.

Fish cannot carry guns.

I have never yielded to reality.

sometimes the best response to reality is to go insane

One invisible puff-puff whisk of economically priced Ubik banishes compulsive obsessive fears that the entire world is turning into clotted milk, worn-out tape recorders and obsolete iron-cage elevators, plus other, further, as-yet-unglimpsed manifestations of decay.

What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

All theatre is absurd.

Beautiful… as the fortuitous encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table.

Oh if only instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense anus!

To construct mechanically the brain of a somniferous tale, it is not enough to dissect nonsense & mightily stupefy the reader's intelligence with renowned doses, so as to paralyze his faculties for the rest of his life by the infallible law of fatigue; one must, besides, with good mesmeric fluid, make it somnambulistically impossible for him to move, against his nature forcing his eyes to cloud over at your own fixed stare.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to consider our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Chuck said, "Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Cawley looked over at him. "I'll bite. How many?" "Fish," Chuck said and let loose a bright bark of a laugh.

A lot of Luis Bunuel's later, European films are all great.

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl- impossibly pale, luminous and lifeless as the moon.

Breton considered suicide the truest art, though life seemed hardly worth the trouble to discard.

My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.