Dream Quote by Graham Joyce

Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the…

— Andre Breton

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

— Andre Breton

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject…

— Paul Delvaux

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real…

— Andre Breton

“That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most…

— Amy Reed

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens…

— Henry Miller

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

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what…

— Rene Magritte

“The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies consciousness, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Symbolism and surrealism overlap in the way they give primacy to mental reality over objective reality, and this in turn gives rise to a…

— Phil Baker

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

— Salvador Dali

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

— Susan Sontag