“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
Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting. — Andre Breton Artist 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
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness… — André Breton Solitary Copy Share Image
“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation,… — André Breton Forbidden fruit Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Aesthetic 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
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
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
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion… — Andre Breton Education Copy Share Image
“I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read… — André Breton 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
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
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 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
“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
“I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind… — André Breton Character Copy Share Image
