I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was. — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I… — Andre Kertesz 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 taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag 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
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly 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
I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become… — Kenneth Koch 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
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression… — Frida Kahlo Copy Share Image
We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams… — Dumitru Tepeneag 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
When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope… — Alejandro Jodorowsky 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
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
In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants… — Claudia Rankine 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
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour 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
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
On the other hand, Surrealism has been a part of Romanian literature since forever. Even before Tzara, who was originally Romanian, we… — Dumitru Tepeneag 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
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
She gathers my half of the blankets around her and curls up against the wall. She will sleep for hours more, dreaming… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The most important quote about poetry and politics that I know is from a different situationist, Guy Debord. He was locked in… — Joshua Clover 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
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
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin 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
The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".” — Eamonn Gearon 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
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
