Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life. — Vincente Minnelli 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
“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
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André 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
Everyone is just a hallucination, shadowy illusions they'll die. When I go to sleep you'll die when I wake up you'll reappear. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“I am spilling fire on every side. But I do not trust the 500 billion flames which I am training like dogs.” — Paul Éluard Copy Share Image
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag 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
“We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the… — Michael Richardson 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
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! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of… — Paul Delvaux 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“I have said three words too many, too bad, I take them back, I add them. I have several times deserved death,… — Paul Éluard 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
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck 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
“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.” — Arthur Holitscher Copy Share Image
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image