We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton Color Copy Share Image
A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... — Andre Breton Art Copy Share Image
“Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“to poke its umbrella tip in the mud of the electric light ” — Andre Breton Electric light Copy Share Image
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton Delight Copy Share Image
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never… — Andre Breton Events Copy Share Image
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental… — Andre Breton Clairvoyance Copy Share Image
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Art Copy Share Image
“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness… — André Breton Solitary Copy Share Image
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which… — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I… — Andre Breton Awareness Copy Share Image
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the… — Andre Breton Alive Copy Share Image
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite.… — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.” — André Breton Amor Copy Share Image
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of… — Andre Breton Absence Copy Share Image
It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more… — Andre Breton Age Copy Share Image
“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — André Breton Dream Copy Share Image
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. — Andre Breton Art Copy Share Image
“La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l’amour Ses draps défaits sont l’aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed… — André Breton Amour Copy Share Image
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.” — André Breton Dream Copy Share Image
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Art Copy Share Image
“If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton” — André Breton Life Copy Share Image
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Altruism Copy Share Image
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
