Quotes About Surrealism

In such a cruel, self-centered crowd would there ever be some soft-hearted fellow who would sell me his face?

To the left of the rubber boots in the front lie the corpse of the mask and the button. I leave it all up to you. I shall have returned home a step ahead of you. I pray with all my heart that you will come back with your usual expression, as if nothing has happened.…

Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it has sided with them against all forms of imperialism and white brigandage…

Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Inside Yoko's apartment was a world of Dalís, Magrittes, and Egyptian sarcophagi. The shades were shut, blocking the views of Central Park.

Porque nadie tiene más sed de tierra, de sangre y de sexualidad feroz que estas criaturas que habitan los fríos espejos.

Vamos en una cárcel racional que navega dentro de un loco.

With 'Enter the Void,' I didn't know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when I watched it. It really stuck with me.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

De camera staat nu op zijn kop. Met mijn voeten hang ik aan de straten van de stad, mijn hoofd zwabbert in de leegte. Trams slaan vonken uit de ruimte. Lantaarnpalen breken los uit het trottoir en storten de diepte in. De regisseur is verliefd geworden op zijn effect en vergeet z'n levensgevaarlijk rondscharrelende hoofdrolspeler. Ik raak verward in de glanzend berijpte takken van een boom.