All Andre Breton Quotes
- 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
- The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb. Art
- What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less… Allows
- The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes… Absolutely
- It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first… All
- How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. Appear
- How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it,… Burden
- A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it... Art
- Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history. Any
- To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize… Awareness
- Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for… Children
- In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. Events
- To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray… Absolute
- There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. Danger
- Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner… Absence
- 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… Arrangements