Louis Aragon

As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly…

— Louis Aragon

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

— Louis Aragon

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

— Louis Aragon

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

— Louis Aragon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

— Louis Aragon

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

— Louis Aragon

No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no…

— Louis Aragon

O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the…

— Louis Aragon

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

— Louis Aragon

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would…

— Louis Aragon

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...

— Louis Aragon

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about…

— Louis Aragon

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms…

— Louis Aragon

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,…

— Louis Aragon

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to…

— Louis Aragon

What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your…

— Louis Aragon

The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the…

— Louis Aragon

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the…

— Louis Aragon

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

— Louis Aragon

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though…

— Louis Aragon

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

— Louis Aragon

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

— Louis Aragon

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes…

— Louis Aragon