It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton Anarchism Copy Share Image
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton Color Copy Share Image
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. — Andre Breton Dating 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
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
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Artist Copy Share Image
“Again begins the ridiculous, terrible waiting, in which we do not know which object to move, which gesture to repeat—what to do… — André Breton Life 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
The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton” — André Breton Life Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Absence Copy Share Image
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of… — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by… — Andre Breton Facts Copy Share Image
One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A… — Andre Breton Children Copy Share Image
“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where… — André Breton Copy Share Image
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“There’s only one woman left in the absence of thought that characterizes in pure black this cursed era.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Altruism Copy Share Image
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs… — Andre Breton 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
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things ‘are,’ while others, which well might be,… — André Breton Cancer Copy Share Image
“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 Amour Copy Share Image
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. — Andre Breton Art 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
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The mind of the dreaming man is fully satisfied with whatever happens to it. The agonizing question of possibility does not arise.” — André Breton Dream Copy Share Image
“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Art 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
“This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.” — André 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
