All Andre Breton Quotes
- All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. All
- Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Inspiring
- I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events… All
- Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize,… Doomed
- Words make love with one another. Funny
- Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. All
- If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. Affair
- Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined,… Believe
- Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. All
- No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that… Conventional
- It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. Ceasing
- No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Answering
- Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur. Awareness
- Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. Date
- To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God… Been
- Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Art
- The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. Act
- Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.… All
- When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? Arbitrary
- It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. Anarchism
- Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' Amount
- Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word… Begins
- Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts… Acts
- The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger,… Act
- The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless… Absolute