Surrealist Quotes

35 quotes by 26 authors

I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J. G. Ballard
To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has… — Rene Magritte
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger,… — Andre Breton
I tried sex once with a woman and that woman was Gala. It was overrated. I tried sex once with a man and that man… — Salvador Dali
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was. — Frida Kahlo
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself. — Frida Kahlo
All cities are geological; you cannot take three steps without encountering ghosts bearing all the prestige of their legends. We move within a closed landscape… — Ivan Chtcheglov
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists… — Ivan Chtcheglov
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into… — Duane Michals
In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealistsâ€”Â 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine… — H R Giger
We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of… — Albert Camus
I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with… — C. M. Mayo
The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the… — Susan Sontag
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. — Susan Sontag
It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of. — Michel Gondry
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go… — Manny Farber
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the… — Ian Hornak
Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92… — Chloe Sevigny
The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write)… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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