Quotes about Surrealism

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My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of a — André Breton, Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un r — André Breton
Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I c — Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — André Breton, The Magnetic Fields
Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare? — Saşa Pană, Prozopoeme
Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality. — Debasish Mridha
Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words prope — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost l — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’il lit, trouve, sans se désorienter, son — Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. — Arthur Holitscher
In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') — Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typograp — Tristan Tzara, Manifesti del dadaismo
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. — Floriano Martins
Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights — H.C. Artmann, Contemporary Surrealist Prose
Dreams are memories we’ve lost to sleep. — F.K. Preston
Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream just yet. Because the sensation of — F.K. Preston
Strictly speaking, it might not be a dream. It was reality, but a reality imbued with all the qualities of a dream. A di — Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage