Quotes About Surrealism

Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will not be at all.

On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.

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.

One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence. 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.

Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Surrealism is only trying to rejoin the most durable traditions of mankind. Among the primitive peoples art always goes beyond what is conventionally and arbitrarily called the 'real'.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

to poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Let's go over to Salvador Dali's suite at the St. Regis Hotel for a nightcap." This sounded like a surreal idea to me.

Eh, Mijnheer, querenzie tomar la klopje inmensa de la cabeza vefrouvens in forma de ein skoboldash sundae?

I found Shanghai to be the very essence of the Surrealist doctrine: If the world is mad, then the maddest man is the most sane. - Damian Adler

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

They rolled all over the pastel crayons scattered on the sheets so her back was variegated with patches and blotches all the colours of the rainbow and Lee was also marked everywhere with brilliant dusts, both here and there also darkly spotted with blood, each a canvas involuntarily patterned by those workings of random chance so much prized by the surrealists.

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 look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.