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From Quotes by Andre Breton
- 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…
- 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…
- Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
- Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to…
- I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling…
- There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his…
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