Surrealism Quotes
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Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
— Angela Carter
I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.
— Paul Eluard
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
— Andre Breton
But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.
— Vincente Minnelli
A mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
— Lee Friedlander
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
— Octavio Paz
Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
— Graham Joyce
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
— Andre Breton
Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.
— Dave McKean
Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality.
— Debasish Mridha
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.
— Salvador Dali
Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful
— Andre Breton
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
— Andre Breton
I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.
— Trevor Dunn
This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.
— Andre Breton
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
— Trevor Dunn
Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!
— Salvador Dali
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.
— Comte De Lautreamont
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
— Salvador Dali
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
— Andre Breton
The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.
— Molly Crabapple
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
— Brad Holland
Reality is changing Viena. You can not stop the cycle.
— Veronica Purcell
THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
— Werner Herzog
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
— Philippe Starck
Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.
— Georges Limbour
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
— Susan Sontag
Surrealism runs through the streets,
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.
— Andre Breton
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
— Andre Breton
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Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.
— Michael Richardson
The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible
With the reading aloud of a newspaper — Andre Breton
Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.
— China Mieville
Sure, people can make you happy, but no one can stop you from being happy.
— Jason Daniel Chaplin
Dreams are memories we've lost to sleep.
— F.K. Preston
The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
— Rosalyn Drexler
I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
— Leonora Carrington
Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.
— Francis Picabia
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
— Arthur Holitscher
For me, surrealism is in my blood; it's not an effort.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
Everyday objects shriek aloud.
— Rene Magritte
Exit, pursued by a bear.
— William Shakespeare
I am the soul in limbo.
— Andre Breton
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.
— Jessica Stroup
One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
— Alfred Jarry
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
— Milton Glaser
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
— Andre Breton
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
— Tristan Tzara
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
— Andre Breton
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
— Salman Rushdie
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.
— Joe Bousquet
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
— Andre Breton
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.
— Donald Barthelme
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.
— Rosalind E. Krauss
The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.
It means whatever you want it to mean. — Blaise Cendrars
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
— Salvador Dali
That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.
— Alfred Jarry
Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.
— Salvador Dali
Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
— Vincente Minnelli
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
— Frida Kahlo
As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
— Mark Mothersbaugh
Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.
— Gloria Steinem
We write the earth we stand upon.
— Laura K. Cowan
May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
— Andre Breton
As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.
— Will Advise
The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.
— Vincente Minnelli
