André Breton

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

— Andre Breton

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither…

— Andre Breton

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

— Andre Breton

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by…

— Andre Breton

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

— Andre Breton

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always…

— Andre Breton

At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps…

— Andre Breton

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

— Andre Breton

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

— Andre Breton

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

— Andre Breton

“On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.”

— André Breton

One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according…

— Andre Breton

The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,…

— Andre Breton

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness…

— Andre Breton

“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.”

— André Breton

I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit…

— Andre Breton

“La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l’amour Ses draps défaits sont l’aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed…

— André Breton

“When the windows like the jackal’s eye and desire pierce the dawn, silken windlasses lift me up to suburban footbridges. I summon…

— André Breton

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of…

— Andre Breton

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

— Andre Breton

“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the…

— André Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced…

— Andre Breton

When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

— Andre Breton

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their…

— Andre Breton

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,…

— Andre Breton