In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods. — Hans Arp 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
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
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
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
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois 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
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Hans Arp 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
“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
The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long… — Henri Michaux 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
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout… — Rene Magritte 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
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so… — Audrey Niffenegger 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
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
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
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
“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
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within… — Ivan Chtcheglov 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
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
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
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
A text makes the word more specific. It really kind of defines it within the context in which it is being used.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. — Billy Connolly 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
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman 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 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
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
“Most people are realist. I consider myself a surrealist. Creativy drives past the point of what is real to a wonderland of… — Andrinesha Dickson Copy Share Image
![“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.” quote by Audrey Niffenegger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/audrey-niffenegger-1298_art_who-are-the-artists-you-admire-surrealis_2325281.jpg)
