All Andre Breton Quotes
- 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
- 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