Republican Quotes by Louis Aragon

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

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

— Louis Aragon

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

— Louis Aragon

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

— Louis Aragon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

— Louis Aragon

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

— Louis Aragon

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

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

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

— Louis Aragon

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

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...

— Louis Aragon

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon