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
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
“I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.” — Arthur Holitscher 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
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
The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce 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
“André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it… — David Craven Copy Share Image
“Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we’re all connected. We’re all going to become one cloud of light… — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth,… — John Bennett 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
“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
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
The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect.… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The Limits Of Control is not surrealism, but it is an experiment in which expectations are deliberately removed: expectations for narrative form,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there are gardens where peacocks sing like nightingales, somewhere there are caravans of separated lovers traveling to meet each other; there… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“Bonfire of Broken Hearts by Stewart Stafford A shivering man craving warmth, Mustn't let the fire consume him, Despite temptation heat flares,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where… — André 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
The end of the surrealism movement was so political, so artistically pure. — Alejandro Jodorowsky 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
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton 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
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
“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
“Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night," in issue… — Joseph Patrick Pascale 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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