Dream Quotes by André Breton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

— Andre Breton

Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

— Andre Breton

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

— Andre Breton

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

— Andre Breton

“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful”

— Andre Breton

“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace…

— André Breton

“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing…

— André Breton

“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”

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“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in our reformatories.…

— André Breton

A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what?…

— Andre Breton

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

— Andre Breton

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one…

— Andre Breton

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

— Andre Breton

I am the soul in limbo.

— Andre Breton

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the…

— Andre Breton