Quotes About Surrealism

I create neo-surreal gardens with my paint brush

We're all adults here—we all know the score. We know what they do to people like me and my mom, to paradoxical hybrids of arrogant narcissism and vulnerable naïveté. We know what happens to unreconstructed surrealist militants. Tortured. Marked for assassination. Imagine what awaits me out there.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.

The fishes had the head, arms, and breasts of women.

In Naked Lunch, the emperors not only have no clothes, they prance through the pages as simians and purple-assed baboons.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism

Breton, heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud, believed that art should be freed from the brake placed on creativity by the conscious mind.

We have lived for too long in the dreary region of homo economicus, our lives shadowed by principles of self-interest, utilitarian 'necessities,' instrumental moralities. But we are permitted to hope; to revive those great and optimistic words of Breton: 'Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights.' We must welcome, as did the Surrealists, the re-entry into modern life of homo ludens, the imaginative man at play, the intuitive visionary.

In quel periodo cominciò a leggere Kafka. La prima volta provò una sensazione di freddo, di gelo insidioso; qualche ora dopo aver terminato Il Processo si sentiva ancora intorpidito, molle.

Sweet nectar of insight. You squeeze my heart and give healing. The sweet juice of awareness. The philosophical symbolism of paradoxes gives knowledge about life, a rebus of reality surrealism, deciphering which gives the nectar of insight.

Truth under anesthesia, hypnotic serum of truth, under a layer of surrealism of self-deception.

Truth under anesthesia, hypnotic truth serum, under a layer of surrealism of self-deception.

Overcooked asparagus dripped off the rim of a platter like clocks in a Dalí painting. And

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason, sequence and rules of contradiction. In aesthetics, I believe the name given to this theory is Dadaism; in philosophy, nihilism; in psychiatry, schizophrenia. In the parlance of the theater, it is known as vaudeville.

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.