“Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise… — Phil Baker 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
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 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
“Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream just yet. Because the sensation of your… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just… — Patricia Piccinini 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
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
“We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma,… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/… — Alison Mosshart Copy Share Image
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Same Old, Game Old by Stewart Stafford On the first day of the new year, Chronos's roulette wheel rolls, Seeing the thermometer… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“The Coach’s head was oblong with tiny slits that served as eyes, which drifted in tides slowly inward, as though the face… — Ashim Shanker 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
Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the… — Aimé Césaire 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
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Let's pretend looks didn't really matter in a relationship and that everyone is really in a relationship solely because their partner is… — Emanuel Sebastiao 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
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the… — Curtis Ackie Copy Share Image
“Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible… — Franz Kafka 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
“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
“It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and… — Michael Kupperman Copy Share Image
“This kind of fantasy, in which “something is not quite right”, lends itself very well to Gothic sensibility, with its convoluted use… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart. — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
Complexity is surrealism, once you understand surrealism isn't complex. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
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