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Surrealism Quotes by Susan Sontag
- 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…
- Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.
- Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
More Surrealism Quotes
- In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self. — Milton Glaser
- THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism. — Werner Herzog
- When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was… — Guillaume Apollinaire
- The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton
- Surrealism runs through the streets, — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton
- Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with… — Andre Breton
- Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe… — Andre Breton
- The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream. — Graham Joyce
- 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… — Gotye
- The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism,… — Daniel Pinkwater