I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Lady Gaga has a lot of energy, and that is fantastic, but she is using old surrealist images. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a Surrealist. I didn't think of myself as anything. I try not to. We all have… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
“and most modern and all surrealist art is nothing but attempted witchcraft, borrowing its forms from the primitive witchdoctor and its ideas… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
Méret Oppenheim was a very erotic woman. She also liked provocation, and if you could provoke surrealists at the Cabaret Voltaire in… — Rebecca Horn Copy Share Image
I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters:… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“The shirt was a screen print of a famous Surrealist artwork by René Magritte in which he drew a pipe and then… — John Green Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of… — C. M. Mayo Copy Share Image
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When I think of my art tribe - you know, my peeps - there are certain people who are autobiographers that I… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
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