“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
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
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
“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
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
“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 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
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
Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“She had poofy, teased-out brown hair that bounced off her shoulders with every high-flying skip and on her t-shirt was a spiraled… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“In this stillness that is at the same time movement, in this darkness that is at the same time light, change is… — Michael Richardson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think… — Stromae Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
We're living in a world where anything can be ART.(Looking out of my window I see a full moon so I took… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
With 'Enter the Void,' I didn't know you could go to this place of surrealism in a movie. I felt sick when… — Karl Glusman Copy Share Image
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The… — Floriano Martins Copy Share Image
“Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike 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
“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
“... 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
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
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
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
