Quotes about Surrealism

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Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours. — Dave McKean, Cages
What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina den — Virginia Petrucci
I am the soul in limbo. — André Breton, Nadja
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dalí
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. — Joan Miró
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. — Marcel Duchamp
Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm — Lepota L. Cosmo
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 — Alfred Jarry, Selected Works
[David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works — Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
Everyday objects shriek aloud. — René Magritte
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of hi — André Breton
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — André Breton
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality act — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate — Michael Richardson, The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The Identity of Things
He considered himself a sort of esoteric martyr, who'd sacrificed everything for principle. Apparently that little book — Donald Jeffries, The Unreals
Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain — Pierre Janet
What is infinity? I haven’t a clue.But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting to explain to you.The fact that — F.K. Preston
Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, ' — Robert Desnos