The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon Copy Share
No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book. — Louis Aragon Copy Share
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. — Louis Aragon Copy Share
Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
Most people have never known solitude… But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not… — Louis Aragon Copy Share
