“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
“Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out,… — H.C. Artmann Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.” — Lautréamont Copy Share Image
“As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no… — Pierre Janet Copy Share Image
“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of… — Amy Reed Copy Share Image
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo… — Bob Peterson Copy Share Image
That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism,… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Complexity is surrealism, once you understand surrealism isn't complex. — Jeremy Limn 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
I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt. — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh,… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
“Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.” — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
