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
Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism. — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Three men riding on a bicycle which has only one wheel, I guess that's surrealism. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!' — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. — Trevor Dunn 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
“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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
“Pessimism is a towering skyscraper eighty stories high in the suburbs of the soul at the end of a long avenue with… — Michel Leiris 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“... 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
MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image