Surrealism Quotes
76 quotes by 47 authors
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In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.
— Milton Glaser
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THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.
— Werner Herzog
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When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
— Andre Breton
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Surrealism runs through the streets,
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
— Andre Breton
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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…
— Andre Breton
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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…
— Andre Breton
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The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
— Graham Joyce
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I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your…
— Gotye
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The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism,…
— Daniel Pinkwater
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Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
— Angela Carter
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Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but…
— Paul Delvaux
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Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.
— John Lennon
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My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
— Philippe Starck
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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television…
— Graham Joyce
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
— Andre Breton
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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…
— Andre Breton
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As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
— Mark Mothersbaugh
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