Quotes About Surrealism

I probably have 15 to 20 Dalis in the store. The secret to buying Dali - never buy one made after 1970.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that's my definition of Belgium.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

I love surrealism.

I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to call it, to find 'Portlandia' and co-create 'Portlandia' with Fred Armisen, which allows for levity, allows for the same kind of kinetic energy, but channeled through absurdity and surrealism.

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.

Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck by me because it speaks of the hypocritical nature of the reality. We are something more inside and I want to portray the pluralities in thought.

A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

If one clung too closely to reality, the result might well be far from realistic.