Art Quote by Arthur Holitscher

“Froi fell in love. He didn't want to. Not with a Charyn city. But he did because people didn't stand around in Paladozza and…

— Melina Marchetta

“Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain." "But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I…

— Haruki Murakami

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

— Susan Sontag

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian…

— John Updike

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it…

— Mark Ryden

“When we were young, we thought life would either last forever, or that we were going to die at any second. Everything changed, and…

— Starlight Tucker

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other…

— Andre Breton

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete…

— Salvador Dali

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

— Frida Kahlo