Quotes About Surrealism

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.

La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton

There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.

The exquisite corpse will drink the young wine. (Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau.)

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognized itself.

Let us not lose sight of the fact that the idea of Surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves, the systematic illumination of hidden places and the progressive darkening of other places, the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory, and that there is no real danger of its activities coming to an end so long as man still manages to distinguish an animal from a flame or a stone

As I go on my way I may happen to fall from a precipice or be pursued by stones, but each time, I beg you to believe, it's only a reality.

Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

All I have left is a transparent body inside of which transparent doves hurl themselves on a transparent dagger held by a transparent hand.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

A beleza será convulsiva ou não será nada.

Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität. Nach ihrer Eroberung strebe ich, sicher, sie nicht zu erreichen, zu unbekümmert jedoch um meinen Tod, um nicht zumindest die Freuden eines solchen Besitzes abzuwägen.

I salute Antonin Artaud for his passionate, heroic negation of everything which causes us to be dead while alive.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

We have said nothing about Chirico until we take into account his most personal views about the artichoke, the glove, the cookie, or the spool.

Aux yeux de niveau d'eau de niveau d'air de terre et de feu.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Desde el primero hasta el último día, tuve a Nadja por un genio libre, algo así como uno de esos espíritus etéreos a los que determinadas prácticas de magia permiten atraerse momentáneamente, pero que de ninguna manera podrían ser sometidos.