Surrealism Quotes

76 Surrealism quotes by 45 unique authors

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… — Andre Breton
Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic… — Susan Sontag
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial… — Octavio Paz
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales and myths, magical… — Stanley Kubrick
The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its… — Louis Aragon
After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions. — Trevor Dunn
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. — Salvador Dali
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and… — Salvador Dali
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart. — Jenny Eclair
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. — John Lennon
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. — Dylan Moran
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail. — Salman Rushdie
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems,… — Salman Rushdie
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. — Susan Sontag
Exit, pursued by a bear. — William Shakespeare
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — Andre Breton
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — Andre Breton
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. — Andre Breton
The imaginary is what tends to become real. — Andre Breton
I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone. — Salvador Dali
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a… — Andre Breton
I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and… — Jessica Stroup

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