“I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.” — André Breton Change Copy Share Image
“They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.” — Andre Breton Moon Copy Share Image
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance… — André Breton Dream Copy Share Image
“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it… — André Breton Copy Share Image
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of… — Andre Breton Absence Copy Share Image
“Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.” — André Breton Amor Copy Share Image
Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. — Andre Breton Art Copy Share Image
It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more… — Andre Breton Age Copy Share Image
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never… — Andre Breton Events Copy Share Image
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the… — Andre Breton Alive Copy Share Image
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I… — Andre Breton Awareness Copy Share Image
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the… — Andre Breton Cinema Copy Share Image
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is… — Andre Breton Burden Copy Share Image
“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which… — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton Delight Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental… — Andre Breton Clairvoyance Copy Share Image
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton Books Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Absurd Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought. — Andre Breton Belief Copy Share Image
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The truth can only be seen when you close your eyes to reason and surrender yourself to dreams.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“…It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free… — André Breton Copy Share Image
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for… — Andre Breton Book Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.” — André Breton Beauty Copy Share Image
“The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper” — André Breton Copy Share Image
