“The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her.… — Hendrik Cramer Copy Share Image
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“When we were young, we thought life would either last forever, or that we were going to die at any second. Everything… — Starlight Tucker Copy Share Image
People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language.… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The blast blew a hole in the smack middle of the strange Utopia vision before him and shook the dust out of… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t even picture Mavis’s face anymore. It was sad. She was being erased. I wanted to put my finger on her… — James Tate Copy Share Image
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
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
