Surrealism Quotes · Page 3

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

— Mason Cooley

A REAL man SHOWS how much he loves you, he doesnt have to repeat it repeatedly!

— Mayra Galvan

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

— Lee Friedlander

“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.”

— Arthur Holitscher

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

— Alex Cox

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

— Susan Sontag

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

— Graham Joyce

“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness…

— André Breton

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't…

— Gotye

“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on…

— Comte de Lautréamont

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus…

— Henry Miller

“What bothers me most about my teeth is that they don’t travel loin south, don’t sprout from the Mother Mouth. Vagina dentata,…

— Virginia Petrucci

A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very…

— Harold Pinter

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck…

— Tanikella Bharani

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the…

— China Mieville

“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative…

— Michael Richardson

In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world -…

— Elaine Equi

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in…

— Andre Breton

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,…

— Andre Breton

“In the shadows he could just make out a rough, ghostly wall that stood out in the pitch darkness. As if drawn…

— Eugenio Fernandez Granell

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the…

— Louis Aragon

“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of…

— Amy Reed

On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.”

— Paul Éluard

Everyone is just a hallucination, shadowy illusions they'll die. When I go to sleep you'll die when I wake up you'll reappear.

— Jeremy Limn

“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

Surrealism - in particular with Salvador Dali - was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

One day the sun will soon peep at the earth and smiles at the dark night!

— D Brown

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the…

— Jessica Stroup

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

— Lorrie Moore

Love is the jelly to sunshines peanut butter. And if I tell you that Im in sandwich with you, Im not just…

— Hussein Nishah

“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.”

— André Breton

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

— Brad Holland

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

— Trevor Dunn

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

— Andre Breton

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

— Salvador Dali

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

— Andre Breton

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

— Trevor Dunn