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
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
“…It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free… — André Breton Copy Share Image
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“L'union libre [Freedom of Love]" My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton 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
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness… — André Breton 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
“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
“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton” — andre breton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
