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 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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - "As beatiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table,… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois 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
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
“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
Chuck said, “Hey. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” Cawley looked over at him. “I’ll bite. How… — Dennis Lehane 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
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
“[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
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
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
![“I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man was the famous juggler Federico Garcia Lorca [the Spanish Surrealist poet]. It was very painful.” quote by Salvador Dali](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/141/salvador-dali-2350_jugglers_i-tried-sex-once-with-a-woman-and-that-w_323450.png)
![“[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)
