Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things ‘are,’ while others, which well might be,… — André Breton Cancer Copy Share Image
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the… — Andre Breton Cinema Copy Share Image
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains… — André Breton Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone… — André Breton Hope Copy Share Image
“The double eyelid of the sun rises and falls on life. The birds' feet on the windowpane of the sky are what… — André Breton Copy Share Image
It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like… — Andre 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… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning-that event which i may… — Andre Breton Destiny Copy Share Image
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness… — Andre Breton Absolutes Copy Share Image
It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave… — Andre Breton Children Copy Share Image
I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image