After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. — Trevor Dunn 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
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 show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry 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
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — 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
“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and… — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
So delicate are our souls but it is us and inside us that with which we pull our bodies. No direction is… — Nicole Hill Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus 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
We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“What is infinity? I haven’t a clue. But maybe that’s the whole point I’ve been attempting to explain to you. The fact… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its… — Michael Richardson 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
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
“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
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The… — Floriano Martins 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 did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think… — Stromae Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
That one day you wake up and you realize just how surreal everything going on in your life is, and all you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is,… — Michael Richardson 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
“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
I've definitely gotten to a place of complete surrealism where I feel like I'm living in 'The Truman Show' or something and… — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The… — Eva Fuka 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
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
