All Andre Breton Quotes
- Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process… Aesthetic
- Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. Dream
- The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect. Capacity
- The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. Best
- One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and… According
- I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what… Concern
- I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green Egg
- Let us not mince words.. the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. Always Beautiful
- ...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. Beginning
- A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two… All
- There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… Absence
- May night continue to fall upon the orchestra Continue
- The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the… Attests
- The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Act
- The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his… Beautiful
- Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. Allows
- The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious… Absurd
- Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… Become Utterly
- Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. Choose
- At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely… Beautiful